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The Right Way

by Jerry Ousley  
6/05/2007 / Christian Living

After graduating from AIT in the US Army I was stationed in Washington DC. Debbie and I had been married for about five years but had been apart for almost three months due to training. Towards the end of AIT she and my son were able to join me. We had been living in a camper on a base mobile home park. I had a couple of weeks leave coming and so, knowing what city we were going to be living in for a while, we headed back to Indiana for a visit and to gather our belongings. On the way however, we thought it would be best to have an apartment lined up so we'd have somewhere to stay when we came back.

Okay, here's the picture: We were driving in the city (remember, we're from "small-town" Indiana), in a very large Chrysler pulling a twenty-five foot camper. We were trying to find the Army base by following a map. We had the address and thought we knew where we were going. We found ourselves driving right through the heart of the city in all the traffic pulling this big rig and if people didn't notice that we were definitely from out of town it was only because they were blind. For a moment there I knew how Jed Clampet must have felt.

We finally found a place to pull over after endless twisting and turning and discovered that the reason we hadn't found the base was that there were two sets of lettered streets (as opposed to numbered streets instead of 12th, 13th, and 14th, they were "L", "M", and "N"). We were on the wrong side of town!

Have you ever been lost? I mean with the feeling that you don't know where you are and you have no idea of how to get out? I don't tell too many people about this but I got lost in Elizabethtown Indiana once. As a kid I had been through there many times. Now a good forty years later I had decided to take a shortcut through the tiny berg of Elizabethtown. I confidently drove the country road into town knowing I was going to save all kinds of time. I have always had a good feeling about my sense of direction. Even in the Washington DC incident I was able to pull over and figure out where I had made my mistake, get turned around and find where I was going. But as I headed into Elizabethtown getting lost in such a tiny place was the furthest thing from my mind. In E-Town the street layout is all centered around a square in the middle with a road leading out on each side. I just knew I had taken the correct road but I suddenly found myself in the middle of nowhere on a gravel road. "When did they dig up the pavement and turn this into a gravel road?" I thought. I knew something was wrong.

I turned around, headed back and when I got to the square there were no signs pointing to the right way. It was an overcast day so I couldn't see the position of the sun and suddenly I had no idea of which way to go. It was not only an embarrassing moment but also one that struck fear in my heart. How was I going to get out? To make a long story short I did stumble onto the right road without asking for directions (that's a "man thing" by the way) but it left me with a thought much deeper than, "I'll never do that again."

You see we are all traveling through life. Most of us think we know where we are going but all of us will at one point in our lives realize that we are hopelessly lost. A fear grips our hearts and we suddenly feel all alone in a strange place. How can we get out? How can we be saved from our problem? In the middle of the fear and confusion Jesus Christ points the way and let's us know that He is the only way out of our helpless situation.

At that point we have a choice. We can continue traveling in the way we have been going, wandering aimlessly through life or we can go His way, choose His road, and find what we have been missing for so long. John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." It could just as easily read, "God loved lost man so much that He sent His only Son to be the way, so that whoever was lost could go His way and be delivered from his plight."

We have a choice set before us: Follow His way into life, or live lost forever. It's our choice - our decision. When your life seems lost in a familiar place just go His way.

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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