Roadblocks, Speed Bumps and Potholes

So I know that sounds more like a post from the NCDOT than from me but stick with me for a second and I will make this brief. I grew up in the "holler" - and, well if you don't know what that is God gave us Google for a reason. Anyway there were a lot of back-roads that were, shall we say, little more than goat trails. And many of them, the further you drove the worse they got. I remember when I would go to a new friend's house as a kid and then especially once I started driving as a teenager - that there would often be times when I would begin to think the more humps, bumps and holes that I hit that I surely had to be on the WRONG ROAD! Even though I was following the directions I was given it had to be wrong.

You know how that is - someone invites you to their house for the first time and as you are heading there you transition from well maintained state roads, to some more private drives, to the old cracked beat up road with potholes the size of a small pool. And you can't help but think surely this isn't the right way. We've all been there and we can all recall that moment when on the other side of that last hill riddled with holes or just around that last bend on a bumpy dirt road we reached the very place we were headed.

Or maybe we turned around went back to where we came from and called and said we couldn't find it...

I hope you are seeing the word picture here - Sometimes in life the enemy uses deliberate and distinct roadblocks to try and convince us to abandon our pursuit of God's purpose and turn around and head back. But... most of the time I have discovered that Satan would rather use a few subtle strategically placed humps, bumps and potholes to plant the seed in our minds that SURELY we must be on the wrong road. Even though we have the directions in hand it can't be right. WHY? Because "Satan would throw a roadblock in my way if he didn't like it - and God wouldn't take me down a road like this" - Really? The next time you think about abandoning the journey because you doubt the route is right - I encourage you... KEEP GOING. One last hill riddled with holes, one last bend on a bumpy dirt road and you're there!

~PN