Roundabout

We recently had a new roundabout constructed in our city. The idea behind it was good: keep the traffic flowing and reduce accidents by removing tricky merges and stoplights. But for a long time it caused problems, and many people (including myself) ended up choosing the wrong exit and heading in the opposite direction.

Why all the trouble? Well, the roundabout itself was built very nicely, but the signs directing traffic were either misleading, not well placed, or missing entirely.

In fact, I just read in the newspaper a day or so ago that a young man, having missed his exit thanks to a missing sign, decided instead to drive across the middle section. His truck had to be towed out. In an effort to correct his path, he'd gotten hopelessly stuck.

Isn't that just like walking in the world? If we attempt to live our lives by putting our faith in what the world has to offer, we're going to have problems. We're going to end up going the wrong direction, or we'll have to go around in circles a few times to reach the right path, or we'll get frustrated and try to forage out on our own...possibly making things worse if we get mired in the mud. Even if we enjoy success, we have to hope that our achievements are repeated the next time we reach one of life's roundabouts.

Today I noticed that the sign issue had been fixed. I entered and exited the roundabout with no problems. In fact, it was so smooth that I finally experienced what the engineers had envisioned when it was designed.

God is the engineer of our lives. His Word is the signposts. By putting our faith in Him, and by reading and keeping His Word in our hearts, we're never going to wonder which way we should turn.

"In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight." (Proverbs 3:6)