The Brew Is A Musing

This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.'” (Jeremiah 6:16, NIV 1984).

My Musings – It is one thing to “ask where the good way is,” to come to the crossroads and look, and quite another thing to “walk in it.” But “whether [we] turn to the right or to the left, [our] ears will hear a voice behind [us], saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.'” (Isaiah 30:21, NIV 1984). Here again, it one thing to hear, and another thing to listen and “walk in it.“

My Advice – When we “stand at the crossroads and look,” we find that there are only two paths. One wide and one narrow. “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” (Matthew 7:13–14, NIV 1984).

Few find the narrow road appealing (“we will not walk in it‘). So, they either deliberately take the broad road, believing it cannot possibly “[lead] to destruction,” or refuse to believe there aren’t other paths “that [lead] to life.” There aren’t. Because “salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12, NIV 1984). And the name is? “It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.” (Acts 4:10, NIV 1984).

Don’t “stand at the crossroads” too long. Time may run out. Take the narrow road, the “good way.” “You will find rest for your [soul].“