highway construction
“Make ready the way of the Lord, clear Him a straight path.” —Luke 3:4
Before Christ’s Christmas coming and His Second Coming, we need to make a highway in the desert. This desert highway is both for us (Bar 5:7) and the Lord to use (Lk 3:4). We are to use the highway first to get out of the exile of sin. Then Jesus will come on it to take us home from our exile on earth (see 1 Pt 2:11).
We construct and travel this highway by repentance — deep repentance. By repentance, we fill in the emptiness of sin’s “death valley” and level mountains of pride and inflated egos (see Lk 3:5). As we confess our sins, the Lord makes straight (Lk 3:5) our winding excuses, rationalizations, unrealistic denials, and self-deceptions. The rough, jagged, cutting, harmful edges of our selfish attitudes are made smooth through repentance, forgiveness, and Reconciliation (Lk 3:5).
Make and drive the highway of repentance into Christmas and heaven.
Prayer: Father, keep me on the holy highway (Is 35:8).
Promise: “My prayer is that your love may more and more abound, both in understanding and wealth of experience, so that with a clear conscience and blameless conduct you may learn to value the things that really matter, up to the very day of Christ.” —Phil 1:9-10
Praise: Praise Jesus, Emmanuel, “God-with-us” (see Mt 1:23), risen Lord, Savior, and God!
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