Whose road are you on?<\/p>\n
Scripture often compares life to traveling:<\/p>\n
Among the many other comparisons of life to a journey is Psalm 25:8-10. To help us in our American context to capture the sense, I\u2019ll change all instances of \u201cway\u201d or \u201cpath\u201d to \u201croad:\u201d<\/p>\n
Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the road. He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his road.\u00a0 All the roads of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.<\/p>\n
Consider this image: You are driving down the highway of life. You think you know the right directions. You think you know the most desirable destination. You\u2019ve packed your bags; you\u2019ve filled up the tank; you\u2019re on your way. But God\u2019s GPS \u2013 that is, the Scriptures \u2013 instruct you: \u201cYou\u2019re on the wrong road! Your directions are wrong; even your destination is wrong! This is not the road to life; this is not the road to joy; this is the road to everlasting pain and sorrow, to lack of fulfillment and lack of purpose, to eternal rebellion and loss.\u201d<\/p>\n
Or will you humble yourself before God\u2019s GPS?<\/p>\n
How do we do that?<\/p>\n
Isaiah 66:2 uses the same Hebrew word for \u201chumble:\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.<\/p>\n
To be humble is to confess that we do not <\/i>and cannot <\/i>know the right road apart from God\u2019s GPS, God\u2019s Word, God\u2019s Scripture. To be humble is to acknowledge that all His directions lead us on roads of lovingkindness, roads of covenant faithfulness, roads of joy, roads of life \u2013 even when they lead initially to hardship and persecution. To be humble is not to be \u201coverly impressed by a sense of one\u2019s self-importance\u201d (as a major lectionary defines the Greek translation of the Hebrew word in Psalm 25).<\/p>\n