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[Assurance of Salvation]

The King’s Highway

By Pastor Jim May

There’s an old song that we sing from time to time that goes like this:

My road is wider, my load is lighter
Walking up the King’s highway
Jesus to guide me, His angels beside me
Walking up the King’s highway

If you’re not walking, start while I’m talking
Walking up the King’s highway
There’ll be a blessing, that you’ll be possessing
Walking up the King’s highway

It’s a highway to heaven, none can walk up there, but the pure in heart
It’s a highway to heaven, walking up the King’s highway

My question for you today is a simple one. Are you walking the King’s Highway?

We are all traveling through life, but are we walking in the right path? Is the road you are taking going to get you where you want to go?

There are a lot of roads in life that people take. Some begin their journey even while they are still in school developing a “don’t care, know it all attitude” that makes them unreachable. You can’t teach someone who has a closed mind. They don’t understand that the road they are walking will lead to a life of poverty, and often right into a life of crime that ends in a prison somewhere. I doubt if there is one in 100 prisoners who will say that they ever thought that they would spend their days behind bars. They simply chose to walk the wrong road and it led to their destruction.

If you are getting ready to take a road trip how do you know where to go? There are many twists and turns along the way. I’m sure that there are road signs, but are they all pointing in the right direction? Is there a bridge out somewhere? Is the road flooded somewhere along the way? We all know that there are a lot of things that can force us to take a detour.

That’s the way that your life is. Have you ever heard the phrase, “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry?” We don’t always know what lies ahead. All of your plans and goals for the future can vanish in a moment when an unexpected detour comes along.

The first thing that is necessary is to make sure you’re on the right path and you can only know that if you have a destination in mind. If you begin a journey with no destination in mind, how will you know when you have arrived?
Secondly, not only do you have to know where you want to go, but you have to make sure you are on the road that will lead where you want to go.

If you want to Leave Baton Rouge and go to Phoenix, you’ll never get there by taking I-55. I-55 is a good highway. It’s smooth riding most of the way, and it has a well laid path, but it isn’t the right path for Phoenix. You wouldn’t think of going that way if you were headed west. Yet most of humanity is traveling down the road of life not knowing where they are headed and they are going in the wrong direction.

All along the way I can see signs that I’m going the wrong way. When I get to Jackson, MS I know that’s not west, but I can say, “Oh that sign is wrong. This can’t be Jackson. It has to be Lafayette or Lake Charles instead. Let’s keep going. It will all work out in the end. My heart tells me I’m on the right road.”

I can go a little further and there is another sign saying I-55 north, but that can’t be right. I’m heading west. I know I am. Then I get to Memphis and say, “No, that can’t be Memphis. It has to be Houston because I believe with all my heart that I’m headed west.

On and on I go, through Tennesse, Arkansas, St. Louis, Missouri and into the State of Illinois until I hit the end of I-55 in Chicago, and still I have convinced myself that I’m headed west. I know I’m headed west, In fact look there – it’s the Pacific Ocean! No it’s not, dummy! That’s Lake Michigan!

You’ve been on the wrong road all along, but too blind to see it, too convinced that you were right to see and hear the truth and set in your way to change direction. Your own hard head has brought you where you don’t want to be. You ignored every sign and barreled along, full speed ahead, going for the gusto in life until you hit a dead end. You convinced yourself that the road was right. You just knew in your heart that you were going in the right direction. You were focused on just moving along as fast as you could and refused to belief the truth. Now you will pay the price of being where you don’t want to be.

People choose to walk the highway of life with no thought for tomorrow. They live only to enjoy the moment. There’s an old Latin saying that goes like this, “Carpe’ Diem”. That means, “Seize the Moment”, don’t let an opportunity pass for it may never come again. It all sounds so good, but don’t forget that this isn’t the only moment you will live. What lies ahead? Are you on the King’s Highway, or are you barreling through life on the Highway to Hell?

Proverbs 16:17, "The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul."

Here’s a road sign for you – “Stop! Stop committing sin! Sin only lies in the Highway to Hell. You can’t get to heaven by continuing in Sin! The Map, God’s Holy Word, throws up another road sign, “U-Turn! Repent of that sin, and get on the Highway of Holiness, Righteousness and Purity. Those are the markers on the Road to Heaven.

If you are traveling through life and every billboard has something on it that tempts you to do evil, then you’re going the wrong direction. Turn around while you can. There are turnarounds everywhere if you will just look for them. The Holy Spirit is trying to get your attention. Jesus’ cross is right in front of you. And the Word of God is lighting the way. Don’t keep traveling in darkness. There’s a huge road sign right in front of you that says, “Dead End” right ahead, eternally dead!

Isaiah 35:8-10 gives us a description of the King’s Highway, "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those:the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."

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