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Not Just Any Road’ll Do
Not Just Any Road’ll Do
In “Alice in Wonderland,” when Alice meets the Cheshire cat, she asks, “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where—” “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. “—so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation. “Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.” The author, Lewis Carroll, summarized this conversation well: “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”
Most people today don’t know or care where they’re going spiritually, as long as it’s somewhere. They take whatever road seems right to them, and it gets them exactly where they want to go: somewhere. The problem is “somewhere” is just Hell in disguise. As Christians, we need to know where we’re going and care that we get there. “Let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you; watch the path of your feet.” (Prov. 4:25-26). “Set your mind on things above, not on the things that are on earth.” (Col. 3:2). “We are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.” (2 Pet. 3:13). To get there, not just any road’ll do; it’s gotta be God’s road. “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” (John 14:6)
