FINDING THE GOOD WAY

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

This is what the Lord says:

“Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.”

Jeremiah 6:16a

This ends today’s reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

Israel openly sinned in God’s sight without reservation, blatantly disrespecting Him and violating His commands without any sense of contrition. This obviously didn’t sit well with God and as we know, He sent destructive judgment upon His people for their wicked actions, particularly their worshiping of foreign gods and idols.

But what would keep the people of God from falling back into their sinful ways after their seventy years of exiles ended?

As we will see in today’s single scripture verse, it was all about finding the right way. Look again at the words of the Lord here:

This is what the Lord says:

“Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.”  Jeremiah 6:16a

The Israelites were going to be taken away for a long time but it wouldn’t be forever. After the expiration of the seventy year penalty God imposed on them, the people of God would be permitted to return to the holy land and rebuild their lives and faith. It was the latter that God was addressing in today’s scripture verse.

Note here that the Lord mentions one at a crossroads but the crossroads He is talking about only has two paths to choose from.

One path leads to sin and wickedness and transgression; the other leads to righteousness and a lifestyle that is acceptable and pleasing in God’s sight.

The latter is the good way that God speaks of in the scripture verses. We are to ask where the good way is and then walk on that path as it brings rest and peace to our souls, knowing we are living in a way that God favors.

So who will lead us to the place where the good way is located? And who will always help us stay on it once we find it?

The answer to both questions is easy because friends, we don’t possess enough strength on our own to fight off temptation to sin nor cope with the difficulties and hardships in life. We need the Lord because when left to our own devices, we would all be like sheep left with no one to shepherd them.

Thanks be to God for the gift of His Son Jesus, the Lamb who came to take away the sins of the world, the Savior and Good Shepherd of us all who said this:

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6

That’s it, right? That’s the correct answer to our question about finding the good way. For if you want to fulfill God’s command to seek and find the good way to walk upon, you only need look as far as Jesus and then choose to live like He did. When you do, He will always lead you along the narrow way to life, the way that leads to God the Father and an eternity with Him (Matthew 7:14).

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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