Highway to Heaven: Part 1

April 3

(Psalm 36:5-6 NIV) “Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. {6} Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep. O Lord, you preserve both man and beast.”

(Isaiah 35:8 NIV) “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.”

Scripture describes two ways mankind can take; two roads, or highways, and they end up in very different places. Avoiding the highway to hell will require getting on (and staying on) the highway to heaven. Getting onto the highway to heaven involves appealing to the faithfulness and the love of God. The same God who created hell for the Devil and his angels, has a mercy that is never ending. Only our stubborn refusal to accept God’s Son can keep us from receiving His mercy and forgiveness. Christ offers us a new way. Take it! We must also recognize God’s righteous and holy justice. Recognizing the Lordship of Christ means we recognize His right to judge sin. It means we see God as worthy to make judgments regarding our eternity. He is the righteous and holy Judge. We are not. Recognizing Christ’s “otherness” is another on-ramp to the highway to heaven. Take it! -- Friar Tuck’s Word of the Day