Devotional #5:
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"Follow the Yellow brick road. Follow the yellow
brick road. A follow, a follow, a follow, a
follow, a follow the yellow brick road." * *
In the Wizard of Oz they sing Follow the Yellow
brick road. Do we, honestly follow that YELLOW
brick road? Or do we just take the simpler
looking RED brick road? Like they say, every
mountain starts as a hill. So the impossible
road might look simpler than God's road, but
it's not. My Grandpa and I were on a four
wheeler trip to an over look to the Santa Maria
lake. We met a two forked road. We took one and
had fairly easy going until we came to the tree.
We aren't talking a log. We are talking about a
BIG, HUGE, HONKING, TREE that had to be HUNDREDS
OF YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would have been
sad to turn back except it was getting a little
spooky in that part of the forest, so we turned
around and went home. Have you had those kind of
joy rides that until it stops being fun you
never see the creepy, spooky part of it? It
always looks so inviting to see that new road.
God warns us like the good witch not to take the
other road. Follow the yellow brick road, not
the red one. Follow God's road, not Satan. God
doesn't make us choose his road, though. In
America we are given the freedom of religion,
speech, press, and many other rights. God gives
us these rights, too and, like the government,
warns us of the consequences of breaking onto
the less pleasant path. Hopefully we can speak
to others and help them of of the impossible
road and onto God's road. |