THE HIGHWAY OR THE HIGH WAY?

Hit the road, Jack!

There are those times when we would love to tell another, Hit the road!  I'm done with you!  We are done with you!  Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

Oh, we can have such snarliness about us, huh?

Do you realize that when we are told to hit the highway that such in the kingdom is the high way?  Yes, rough stuff happens to His kind of people.  We are called into a system whose icon is nothing less than a gruesome and ugly cross.  Get used to it.

In our culture, though, we don't want the highway or the high way.  We prefer ease.  We have prejudiced bent toward the comfortable; even if it would mean sacrificing the meaningful.

Try not to reject the painful as if some strange thing were happening to you.  This is the very nature of God to groom us for the next round of combat.  Be not discouraged and, for heaven's sake, don't run or quit.  The rough stuff is supposed to be in our walk to help us understand both Him and those whom we make effort to reach.

Some of the most effective ministry leaders are the very ones who suffered earlier loss.  These are the ones who truly understand the pained ones who are in need of being reached.

The highway or the high way?  Yes.  That's right.