8.28.10 "This Road You're On"

"This Road You're On"

Job 28:1-30:31
2 Corinthians 2:12-17
Psalm 42:1-11
Proverbs 22:7

Yeah, I'm kind of a geek when it comes to tech gadgets. I'm one of the many who "have" to have a GPS for the car. I know it's not a "need", but it's been interesting... I know now how far I am away from the places I drive every day. (Work - 2.1 miles, DiCarlo's Pizza - 1.9 miles...) it's pretty important stuff. When looking for a place I haven't been before, I just plug in the destination. It figures the shortest route, and sets you on your way. ("right turn in 400 yards") I picked the voice with the British accent: "Please take the motorway".

It's a good thing that toy doesn't have a personality. It would say things like, "Where do you think you're going? I said, "RIGHT TURN IN 400 YARDS!!! NOW YOU GOTTA TURN AROUND!!!) No, if you get off course, it just reconfigures the route to bring you home.

When you get to where you're headed, it says, "You have Reached your destination". Andy Stanley said, "The Spiritual journey is the only place where people pray that their destination is different than the path they've chosen." People live their life in one direction, and then pray that they end up somewhere else. He said, "Direction, not intention determines destination."

A few years ago I wrote a "poem" when the Lord was pressing heavy on me about the roads we take. Several of the scriptures from today's reading set up the context.


Psalm 42:1 "As the deer pants for water, so I long for you, O God."
2 Corinthians 2:14 "wherever we go he uses us to tell others about the Lord and to spread the Gospel like a sweet perfume."
2 Corinthians 2:13 "But Titus, my dear brother, wasn't there to meet me and I couldn't rest, wondering where he was and what had happened to him. so I said good-bye and went right on to Macedonia to try to find him."
Job 29:2 "Oh, for the years gone by..."
Job 29:7 "Those were the days..."
Job 28:9-12 "Men know how to tear apart flinty rocks and how to overturn the roots of mountains. They drill tunnels in the rocks and lay bare precious stones. They dam up streams of water and pan the gold. But though men can do all these things, they don't know where to find wisdom and understanding."
2 Corinthians 2:9 "I wrote to you as I did so that I could find out how far you would go in obeying me."

Each of these scriptures are excerpts from today's Bible reading. They are at first glance unrelated, but I want to tie them in to what I feel the Lord wants to say.

The Road

My question, dear friend, is of this road you're on.
As I watch you travel and see you toil,
my heart asks of yours what brought you here.
Has this path been laid before you or is it one you've forged?
Were you guided, driven, lured, drawn or seduced down the path
of This Road You're On

When this Journey began and you were Called
the fire in your eye could not be quenched.
You're passion was known to all around.
Your hunger to know the One who called
Caused your course to not be changed.
Like a deer for water your feet were sure
Your Mission was set. There was no question
of This Road You're On.

Now where are you, my friend, I cannot rest.
It's not to judge that I question you.
For I can dig for diamonds, and pan for gold,
but no work of mine can know your heart.
I only know of the One who called and his plan for you.
I pray His path
is This Road You're on.

Will you take the time to take a pause,
to check the course and mark your path?
What's in your heart as you look back?
Does the song of your heart mourn for days gone by
When the path was clear and your step was sure?
When your passion burned bright and your Master was clear?
From that time till now, what has brought you to
This Road You're On

There is a world that is desperate to see
You become who he's created you to be.
For you to go where he's called you to go
The path he has drawn you must surely know.
You may not know where the time has gone
Or how you got to This Road You're On.

Don't hesitate or delay your resolve to stir up the fire
For clearing the road of all it's debris:
The things in the way that have drawn your eyes from the course.
The comfort. The pride. The glory. The shame.
If you feel lost, Just call on the name
Of the One who set you on this path to begin.
He knows YOUR name. He's calling again.
To make sure where you walk is where He's led.
How far will you go as you obey?
Make sure it's HIS...

This Road You're On.


"You have reached your destination".


Through the Power of the Spirit,
Live the DREAM!

P Greg


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