Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Road to Nowhere

This past week I was working on a special project for a friend, and it became necessary for me to travel down a road I thought sure would lead me to my desired destination. After much driving with nightfall approaching, I decided to turn the car around and give it a try another day. The name of the dirt road, coincidentally, was Lost Road.

Every day people around the world spend their time, resources, and energy traveling down a road that promises to deliver them to their desired destination. People will spend their lives chasing after more money, happiness, a lasting relationship, and the list goes on. But after much traveling and searching, these same people are reaching the conclusion that I came to after my adventure on the small, dusty road called Lost - what they are looking for is nowhere to be found.

People on the Lost Road have no real direction or purpose for their lives outside of pleasing themselves. God is not in their equation for making life work. What's worse, they have figured out how to succeed in life without Him. But if all you have to live for is your own happiness, you will find yourself in pursuit of something that will always elude you. It will always be just out of reach. Even if you taste it for a little while, it eventually will fade away and you will pick up the next day where you left off, searching for something that will fill the hole in your heart that only God can fill.

The only good part of my journey on Lost Road was the fact that I could turn the car around and choose to no longer travel the road that promised much but produced little. Thankfully, I had a map with me that helped me eventually reach my desired location after turning the car around. That is exactly what people on the Lost Road need. They need us to be a map to help them navigate through the waters of life and into the arms of a loving Savior who has the directions for living that they are desperate for.

Hypothetically, if people followed your life as if it were a trustable map, would they eventually be led to the Savior? Chances are, they will never open a Bible to find out for themselves what kind of plan God has for them. They must see it in a life. You are that life. Will you begin today asking God to use your life as a map helping others find their way into the arms of the Savior?