As we headed to Ohio on vacation we had 6 motor homes and fifth wheel trailers traveling the interstate together. I could almost hear Jerry Reed saying over the CB to Burt Reynolds and Sally Field, “Boys, we got ourselves a convoy!” I always loved “Smokey and the Bandit”!!
As we came into Asheville, North Carolina, the person leading the convoy missed the exit and off we went in the wrong direction for several miles before we could find an exit that would be easy enough for six 40+ foot rigs to turn around on. Eventually we got back on the interstate and found the correct exit and off we went toward Virginia.
It occured to me as we sought a way to get back on the right road that so often in our lives we follow the wrong things or people and end up on a path that we never intended to go down. It is so easy to take our eyes off the Lord, placing them on the surrounding scenery and suddenly we are walking a path that, while it is beautiful and seems good, is far less than the one God would choose for us to walk.
God says to us in Isaiah 30: 21,”This is the way, walk in it.” God’s road is the best one for us walk, if we will simply humble ourselves and walk it. As long as we keep our eyes focused on the road ahead and our ears tuned to the frequency of the Holy Spirit, we will travel on the road that God knows will bring us safely home.
