The Road less Traveled

Robert Frost wrote a poem titled, "The Road Not Taken," which has inspired
thousands of authors and perhaps many adventurers to consider the road less
appealing to others. At the end of the poem he closed with these words, "Two
roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that
has made all the difference."

Life is filled with choices for most of us. We choose the road or path our
life will follow. Sometimes the choice is made early in our life with
decisions about school or our choices of friends. Sometimes the direction we
go is influence by others such as our siblings, our parents, or our spouse.
Sometimes it seems as if we have no choice at all and we are forced down a
road we would rather not take.

I would suggest to you that there is one road one path which we alone can
choose. No one can force us down the path; we must choose it for ourselves.
Jesus had this to say about it in Matthew 7:13-14, "Enter by the narrow
gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way (the road) that leads to
destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate
and difficult is the way (the road) which leads to life, and there are few
who find it."

The path we walk today really has become "the road less traveled." It is
unpopular, it is considered old fashioned and out of style. It doesn't go
along with what is "culturally acceptable" and people just plain don't like
to do some of the things God requires of them. Should we be surprised that
so many people in our world choose not to follow Christ and the narrow,
difficult road? No not at all, Jesus said over 2000 years ago that this is
what would happen.

The leaders of our society are taking away the ability to make choices in
some areas of our lives. They can force us to live within the constraints of
laws made by ungodly men and women, but they cannot force us to give up our
faith and our commitment to God's path. Far too many in the world chooses
the wide road; they want the "highway" that is traveled by many others, "the
fast lane" as they say. They are more concerned with being popular,
politically correct and accepted socially than they are about the lasting
consequences of their choices.

Frost wrote: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less
traveled by, And that has made all the difference." If you want to make a
difference in or world and in your life eternally, choose the right road,
the one less traveled by the world.

Russ Lawson