Following too close to a car the other day the message on a bumper sticker easily jumped out at me. It said, “All who wander are not lost.” Interesting.
Interesting because I have spent an entire lifetime on the highways of North America wandering from one end to the other, and I have seldom been lost. But I did meet a lot of folks who were.
There is no shame in being lost. There is a shame, however, in never wandering.
If a person just enters an interstate and merely goes from point ‘a’ to point ‘b’ they have missed the journey. The greatest people and the most interesting places do not lie along the main highway. They require a keen eye and attention to what is around you.
Likewise, the journey of life is wasted if it only goes from birth to death and never sees the road. The road laid out by the ‘maker of roads,’ the ‘Kings Highway,’ spans the entire experience of living. Along that way are many who really are lost, even more who are searching, and, when God blesses, another kindred wanderer shares the journey for awhile.
The road, however, eventually climbs to higher ground, and the lost are no more there. Just wanderers come home.
Have a safe trip.
Isaiah 35:8-9 NLT And a great road will go through that once deserted land. It will be named the Highway of Holiness. Evil-minded people will never travel on it. It will be only for those who walk in God’s ways; fools will never walk there. Lions will not lurk along its course, nor any other ferocious beasts. There will be no other dangers. Only the redeemed will walk on it.
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