Two Roads in MY Life

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Posted by: " | RS | " rajesh.seshadri.india

Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:49 pm (PDT)

SPIRITUALITY

 

Two Roads in My Life (Contributed by: Bharathi Sarkar)

 

Today I took a time of silence just to look back on my life and to see

what happened to me. I looked back on the road of my life and I saw

that there are two roads that are leading to where I am currently

standing. I could not understand this.

 

The one road is twisty and go through canyons, over cliffs and it

seems that it is a road that no sane man will travel. The other road

is a road that looks like a highway. It is straight and flat, but it

is also very, very narrow.

 

I asked God why is there two roads that only converge a little way

from where I am standing. God answered me and said that the one road -

the twisty difficult road, is the road that I chose to walk. This road

is so difficult and so dangerous because I did not heed God's word. I

sinned and the devil led me on this twisty road.

 

As I looked at the twisty road, I started seeing road-signs all along

the way, representing the things that I have done in my past. How

shocked, horrified and ashamed was I to see all the bad things that I

have said, that I have done, that I have thought of.

 

I can see where I went over cliffs, the places where I have fallen and

stumbled and where I got hurt so badly that it seemed impossible to

live. There were also places where it seemed impossible for me to have

survived the road that I was traveling.

 

It was really a horrific road. Sometimes there was no road at all and

I wondered what happened during those times in my travels on this

difficult road. I asked God and He said with a smile in His voice,

" Son that is where the devil let go of you and I caught you, I carried

you. "

 

I said, but how is it still possible that if I was walking with and

following the devil that You where still there for me. He said to me

" It is because I love you and I will never stop loving you, regardless

of your sins. "

 

I looked with amazement to this horrible road and wondered how it

happened that I ended up traveling this dangerous road. As if God knew

what was on my mind, He said, " Son your choices was not always right

and you had to learn, I gave you freedom to do as you wanted and was

hoping that you would learn from your choices. "

 

I shrieked in my body and soul, because the sign posts next to the

road showed so clearly the choices that I have made. There was no

doubt in my mind that all these choices was very far removed from what

God had in mind for me and what He had planned for my life.

 

I asked God about the narrow road that is flat and straight and He

said to me, " Son that is the road that I had planned for you and which

you choose not to walk for so long. I was willing to lead you and show

you all the riches that I had in my stores for you. "

 

I wondered just how much I have missed in life by trying to follow my

own road. I looked at the place where the two roads converge and my

twisty and dangerous road meet with the narrow, straight road, it was

only a very, very short distance from where I was standing at this moment.

 

Again, before I could ask God about this, He answered me and said,

" Son you started praying, you started leaving the choices in My hands.

You started trusting me and you started believing in the power of what

I can do. I was hoping that you would come to Me and look at My road. "

 

" All it took was for you, to start asking Me for the things in your

life that you wanted and trusting Me enough with those things. I am

burning to release My full flood of riches onto you, to give you far

more than you could ever ask for or dream of! You must remember that

it was YOUR choice to travel your own road, I was always there, but

you never trusted Me, you never asked Me to help you. "

 

" You where the one that went of on the difficult road with all the

dangers and My road was there all along. It was up to you to come back

to Me, because I never left you, it was you who left Me. There, where

the roads converge, that is when you came back to Me, that was when

you gave up on trying to be the leader in your own life, when you

realized that on your own power you are not getting anywhere and you

are not achieving anything meaningful in your life, when you stopped

relying on your own power.

 

" That was when you said to me that I must take control of your life

and lead you according to what I, your Father, has planned for you. I

was waiting so long for you to just start asking Me for guidance, I

wanted to take your hand everyday, but if you did not allow me and

trust me, I could not do that. "

 

I could only stand in amazement on what happened since the two roads

converge. I could see the drastic change and the things that came my

way since traveling God's way. I decided there and then that without

God in my life, I do not want to live another day. I started

understanding what God, my Father had in store for me and it is so

simple. I just need to trust Him with everything and I must ask Him

for it.

 

The simplicity of this only started sinking in and I now know that

without God in my life, life is not worth living. I vowed that never

again will I rely on my own strengths, never again will I doubt in

what God has promised each and every one of us. I vowed to keep on

looking for God's will in my life and to get to know Him a lot better!

God is my King and Savior, how about yours?