Along with my theme on the consequences of binary choices in life and “The Road Not Taken”, I offer this short extract from a Bible Reading by Nickey Gumbel. The title of Robert Frost’s poem is “The Road Not Taken”, but the closing stanzas are
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.On the matter of eternity, the road less traveled is one for eternity, but the road most take is not a good one.
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.On the matter of eternity, the road less traveled is one for eternity, but the road most take is not a good one.
Two Ways to LiveAlbert Einstein said, ‘There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.’
Jesus himself said that – ultimately – there are only two ways to live: there are two paths; there are two gates; there are two destinations and there are two groups of people (see Matthew 7:13–14). In the passages for today we see starkly contrasting ways of life.
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Those who ‘hate’ God ignore him and ‘forget God’ (v.22). The twentieth century saw the terrible consequences of the actions of those who forgot him and hated his instruction.As the great Russian novelist, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, considered the great disasters ‘that swallowed up some 60 million’ Russians, he saw the principal trait of the twentieth century was that ‘people have forgotten God’.This does not just apply to other people; it applies to us all. Do you find that sometimes, possibly because everything seems to be going well in your life, you forget to pray, read the Bible or give thanks to God for all his blessings? It is almost as if you have forgotten about God? There are times in all our lives when we forget God and mess things up.