Have you ever been to spaghetti junction outside of Atlanta? It is the place where all the roads come together. At that place several highways meet. They mix and mingle, twist and turn allowing traffic to go various directions. The first time I was there I was almost horrified, yet with each visit I was more confident about the direction to take and the roads to travel. I still get lost from time to time.
That series of roads coming together in one location reminds me of the thoughts and teaching we come across in our world. There is so much that we can take in. From every direction some one is trying to teach us or give something to us, get us to do something or direct our thoughts and life and more. It is confusing to say the least.
Colossians 2:8 (nlt) --- Don't let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.
You know I read Proverbs every day, or at least try to read it. This morning in the 9th chapter wisdom is personified. That means that wisdom is talking like another human and telling the person who loves God to listen out for the right wisdom.
So often we are bombarded by stuff and people that just want our attention, but what they have to share is empty and worthless. It will rob our time and energy and maybe even steal our money and self worth. Does that make sense?
It is kind of like that junction I mentioned above. All this stuff coming at us at one time, and we have to make some choices. We have to choose who we are going to follow or what road we are going to take. We have to choose what we are going to let into our lives and what is going to influence us. Our choices determine who we are and how useful we are to God. Be careful at that spaghetti junction.
Psalms 119:125 (nlt) --- (David prayed) Give discernment to me, your servant; then I will understand your laws.
There is something about people who listen to God. Where all the roads come together is the place and time we have to be able to discern God's voice. Hearing Him and following Him will make a huge difference for us and for the people around us. The reason why God speaks and guides is not to make us better. It is so we will have purpose and influence others.
Don't let the place where all the roads come together rob from you. Robert Frost got it right in his awesome poem "The Road Not Taken" when he wrote "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
John 10:3-5 (nlt) --- The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice. They won't follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don't know his voice.
This week we have talked about our thinking and minds, what we say and what is in our hearts and about our dreams. Literally, the stuff we listen to, wisdom, determines what we think, how we act, what we say and best yet, what is in our hearts and what fills our dreams.
Do you see wisdom? Do you hear His voice? I pray we will come to know His voice like those sheep know the shepherd. I pray we will know the right road when we come to the place where all the roads come together.
James 3:17 (nasb) --- But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.
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