The Highway

All week I was praying about what to talk about on Sunday night.  I had a pretty big event on Saturday and my week was consumed with getting ready for it, working it, and then taking care of a bunch of family obligations on Sunday afternoon.  So no lie, it was 6 pm before I looked at something to talk about in small group at 7.

Ruby said I seemed more nervous this time around. Ha. True, since I really didn't know what was going on.

We are reading through a few chapters of the Calvary Road, and today's chapter dealt with the Highway of Holiness.  Which is an actual passage of scripture.  Who knew?  It's pretty rad.  Check it out.

Isaiah 35: 8-10
And a highway will be there;
       it will be called the Way of Holiness.
       The unclean will not journey on it;
       it will be for those who walk in that Way;
       wicked fools will not go about on it. 
 ⁹ No lion will be there,
       nor will any ferocious beast get up on it;
       they will not be found there.
       But only the redeemed will walk there,
 ¹⁰ and the ransomed of the LORD will return.
       They will enter Zion with singing;
       everlasting joy will crown their heads.
       Gladness and joy will overtake them,
       and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Roy talks about the door to the Highway being the cross.  "The only way on to the Highway is up a small dark, forbidding hill - the Hill of Calvary. It is the sort of hill we have to climb on our hands and knees - especially our knees. If we are content with our present Christian life, if we do not desire with a desperate hunger to get on to the Highway, we shall never get to our knees and thus never climb the hill. But if we are dissatisfied, if we are hungry, then we will find ourselves ascending. Don't hurry. Let God make you really hungry for the Highway; let Him really drive you to your knees in longing prayer."

And the girls really responded to the passage.  We had some great discussion about brokenness.  What is it?  Where does it come from?  Is it different for each person?  The identity that God gives us in Jesus and how that applies to the Narrow Rd.  I definitely had the Pilgrim's Progress picture in my head of the narrow road being kind of forbidding and hard.  This is a completely different scriptural picture of that road.

I love that God worked in spite of me tonight in the girls.  I love that God has a plan and a heart for each of them.  I love that they love Him and are seeking him.  I love that in Christ we are loved and called members of His family and partakers of His divine nature.  Walking with him on the Way.

Rad, indeed.