“’Someone is shouting
in the desert, Get the road ready for the Lord: make a straight path for him to
travel!’”
As I
mentioned in my last IBS, the messenger would go before the king and tell them
he was coming. The people, in response, would clean the road and repair it to
make it an easier path for him to travel.
What
John was doing was much the same thing. He was to prepare the hearts of the
people to receive the Lord. He was telling them to repent and be baptized for
the kingdom of heaven is at hand. In doing the Lord’s work, he was readying the
people to listen to Jesus when he came, and accept him when he departed.
More
than likely, you weren’t saved all at once the very first time you heard the
name of Jesus. You likely heard it again and again, and were persuaded. Or
little things in your life prepared you to accept him when you did.
God
prepares our hearts for the tasks ahead, and for the things in our life that
are coming. It reminds me of one of the girls who was critically wounded at the
Aurora shooting in Colorado. The bullet went through her nose, into her head.
When the doctors did a cat-scan, they realized that she had a birth mutation; a
canal that traveled through her brain with nothing but fluid in it. The bullet
happened to pass directly through that canal, and stop safely on the other
side.
God
knows what’s going to happen, so we need to lean on him. Today, I pray for the
kids hearts to be readied, and for my own to be readied. That I would be
prepared for Spanish class today, and continue to work with all my might, and
not get lazy.
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