In some of the most heavily populated areas of the world, the flow of traffic can become a very real problem to solve as thousands of people begin their day of work in the morning rush. To speed along the commute, the government has constructed an entire network of freeways and interstate highways. Some of these roads are four, five, six, maybe even more lanes wide; they have to be this wide in order to keep all of the traffic moving steadily and smoothly.
The lanes on these roads are one-way in direction, and once you get onto it that is the direction that you need to continue in, because do you know what will happen if someone decided to stop, turn around, and go back in the direction towards where they just came from? With all of the other cars coming up behind they most certainly will cause a serious wreck.
You need to continue to go the same direction once you get on, just as when a person becomes a Christian the only way is forwards. There can be no turning around and going back to the old sinner that they used to be, living in the sins of the world. To do so will only bring about a very certain destruction in the future. The reason why is because they know what the teachings of the Bible say, they know how they should live their lives, but they make the critical error of going back into the world.
2 Peter 2:19-22 “While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”
The world is a sinful place, completely void of the love of God; why would someone go back into it after tasting the mercies of the Lord? Just like a pig that was washed clean from all of it’s filth, each sinner that receives the free gifts of grace and forgiveness has been cleansed from their sins. Why would anyone want to go back?
Salvation is not a one-time lock up, where once you become saved through Christ you can go back to your previous way of life of sin. Like a cup full of water it will only stay full if you keep it upright, but if you turn it upside-down it will disappear, we need to continue to walk in the teachings of Christ.
Ephesians 4:1 “I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,”
John 8:31 “Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;”
Day by day a Christian needs to walk in the footsteps of Christ, always forwards, never going back. It is a narrow path, to be certain, with the threat of temptation on the sides, but we need to keep our eyes on the prize and continue to remain steadfast in the faith. If we happen to stumble in a weak moment we need to get right back up and overcome it; that is the reason that Jesus continues to offer us grace, so that we can overcome.
Always forwards, never back.
In Christ,
Andrew
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