“All the roads that take us away from God lead to no where.”

I heard this yesterday.
From my experience, it’s true.

I know that some would suggest that all roads lead to God, but I am not so sure. Some choose to never face themselves and their lives; to “white-knuckle” life on their own terms, and end up way down the road and find themselves out in the “middle of nowhere” lost in the dark. Some “prefer the darkness over the light.”


The question I have to ask myself during this season of Lent, is the road I am on taking me away from God or am I getting further lost in the “middle of nowhere”?

I know when I’m lost that it is because I have been walking away from the Light.
How did I get there?

How do you know when you are on the road walking in the Light or toward the Light? How do you know if you are in “nowhere land”?

I think of the story of Jesus spitting in the mud and rubbing it on the man’s eyes. At first his vision was blurry, and so Jesus touched him again. Usually when I am in nowhere land, I’m in the dark and my vision is blurry, and that’s when I know I need the gentle touch of God to open my eyes so that I can see. That’s when I know I need to stop and admit that I am in the middle of nowhere; that’s when I know I need to drop my ego and ask for directions.