What Road of Life do you Travel?

Looking at your life, what road are you traveling?  I am sure that many people had planned to be on the Road of Success.  Perhaps you made it, but perhaps you ended up on the Road of
Failure or the Road of Mediocrity.  Everyone wants to be on the Road of Happiness and I hope you are.  Sadly many people find themselves on the Road of Misery and Sadness.

There are many roads in life that we want to be on and many roads we never planned to be on but find ourselves traveling down or perhaps we have even broken down on.  The roads we travel on are ones where we look at what the situation is like now and determine if it is a good road or a bad one. Is it a rocky road, or a smooth road?  Is this road a pleasant drive or one through a desolate desert?

In The Holy Land it is different.  Roads are named for their destination.  They have names such as, the Road to Bethlehem, the Damascus Road, or the Emmaus Road.  The roads were not name for the terrain or how difficult they might be, but for where the road would take you.

We must never judge a road by where we are now, but by where that road takes us.  Perhaps you are on a pleasant road today, but if it ends up at a cliff it is not the road you really wanted to take.  If the road is rocky but delivers you to a happy and fulfilling destination, you will forget about the rocky road and rejoice at where it brought you.

What is the destination you desire to travel to?  If it is a destination of this world such as riches, job success, power, possession or any other short term desire, then you are aiming too low.  The only destinations worth striving for are those that are eternal.  Everything else is worthless in the end.
Short term goals are important, but remember where your life's road ends up is much more important.

There are only two roads of eternity.  The Road to Heaven with eternal blessings and the Road to Hell with eternal damnation.  If your eyes are not set on Heaven you will walk the Road to Hell.  What type of road your life is on does not matter as much as where that road is headed.  We must look up the road and keep our eyes on the destination.  Never let the the terrain stop you, but press on. Never give up.  Keep your eyes fixed on the prize.

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