Road Construction

   As I’ve been traveling across the country there’s been something that’s been common in all six states I’ve been through in my travels.  Road Construction.  Even though it’s fall, it’s still warm enough for the road crews to be finishing up that summer road construction projects.  They’re a pain to drive though, as you always have to reduce your speed, and it makes the trip longer.  Occasionally you hit a project that you have to sit and wait for a pilot car.  The clock ticks away as you work your way through the construction zone at a snails pace.  No one likes it, but we all know it’s necessary.  Roads get beat up and need repairing, especially in the upper Midwest.  Our weather is so extreme on every season, and it heaves and busts up roads.

    As I was driving through yet, another road construction zone a few days ago, trying carefully not to hit any cones with my motorhome, I got to thinking how road construction relates to our lives.  Every now in then, things need to be resurfaced, or a road made wider in our lives.  The Lord is the master at knowing which roads in our lives need attention and repair.  Sometimes our road need a total make over, sometimes just a resurfacing.  Sometimes, we’re going down the right road, and we need to continue on that road, but things have become rather bumpy, and rough.  There’s pot holes and missing pavement where our road has gotten beaten up.  But Jesus has a way of making the crooked way straight and the rough places smooth.  “Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight and the rough places smooth…” Isa. 40:4

    So even though you don’t like it any more than I do, enjoy the journey, even the road construction, knowing that the end result will be better.