Roads Traveled

I am sitting in my class where I am going to be the substitute teacher for the week. I am faced with our society and where it is headed every day. While we do have wonderful children and a pretty sheltered atmosphere here, up in the middle of the mountains, life around all of us is changing. And yet, is it changing or are we just going in a circle that has been here before? I have been reading the Old Testament and I have to say that we are going in a circle that has been traveled upon before.

We are a country that has tasted the sweet fruit of the promise land which was conquered by those who passed before us. Deut. 6:11, "When you have eaten your fill in this land, be careful not to forget the LORD." Our society is doing exactly what He warned others not to do. We are forgetting our LORD, the One who is true and the true leader of this world. When we continually turn against Him, why are we surprised when He turns us over to our own wishes. In Judges we see that the people continually turned against God and did what was evil in His sight. Instead, "the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes." We have a tendency to believe that we are the first ones to think a certain way about whatever issue, but in reality we are just copying an old thought in a new day. Each of us have a path that we must travel on our own, but in reality it is a path that has been traveled before. The main thing that we need to do is to learn to look at the lives that have gone down our path and see where they did thing right and see where they made mistakes.

Jason is a very wise man, for he looked at others lives and what they experienced. He looked at others and calculated his next move based on what he saw. I, on the other hand, was not wise with my life. I jumped without ever considering the choices that I was making. I wish that I could talk to others and warn them and they would actually take heed for what is ahead. But in reality I do not need to warn anyone. Everything that anyone needs to know is written down for them to see. Times have not changed. Technology is different, but human nature is the same. Life will give many a very hard lesson to learn, and that lesson is heartache. Others will not have to experience things the same, but all of us combined are determining the path for future generations.

When you think you are the only one who has traveled down a certain road, look into history, this will open your eyes to the truth. What happened to those who traveled down this same road?