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WRONG WAY!

Keith Wishum recently wrote about a scary experience:

As a man was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, “Frank, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on the Interstate. Please be careful!”

“It's not just ONE car,” said Frank. “It's HUNDREDS of them!”

Many times you and I can be a lot like Frank.  As Wishum says, “We tend to assume that we are right and that everybody else is wrong.  We cause a lot of collisions in our relationships that way.” *

Yet it is extremely dangerous and sometimes fatal to insist on going our own way!  Scripture contains this warning: “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death” (Proverbs 14:12).  In fact, this warning is so serious, it is repeated in the book of Proverbs (see 16:25)!

A DEAD END!  That’s where “going our OWN way” (sin) will lead us.  Jesus admonished: “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.  Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).

But Jesus wants to lead us to life, ETERNAL LIFE.  “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).

Jesus IS the Way to the ABUNDANT life now (John 10:10) and ETERNAL life to come.  He said, “I AM the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).  There is no other way to eternal life.

Wishum affirms: “That’s not being mean.  It’s not disrespectful.  The ‘One Way’ sign is for our benefit.  Things turn out much better when we’re headed the right way.”

“The GOOD NEWS is that the remedy for going the wrong way in life is as simple
as the solution for driving the wrong way on the interstate,” Wishum counsels....  “JUST TURN AROUND!”  That’s what the Bible calls “repentance” (see Acts 17:30-31; 2 Corinthians 7:9-10). 

We must turn FROM heading in the wrong direction and turn TO Christ in trusting obedience: placing our faith and trust in Him (Acts 16:30-31), confessing Him before men (Romans 10:9-10), and being baptized (immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of our sins (Acts 2:38).  Then, we must continue to follow Him, and as we do, His blood continues to cleanse us from sin (1 John 1:7).

Why should we follow Jesus?  Because He gave His life for us so that we can have forgiveness and receive the gift of eternal life (John 3:16; Ephesians 1:7) AND because He is the ONLY Way to heaven!

Won’t YOU follow THE WAY that leads to LIFE?

David A. Sargent, Minister

Church of Christ at Creekwood 
 1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama  36695

* Keith Wishum in “The Right Way is the Best Way,” A Word from Williams Road, 2/3/15.  Williams Road Church of Christ, Americus, GA.  www.williamsroadcoc.org

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