A Highway.

In a recent discussion my friend Ruth said that people are still doing what they were doing in ancient times and that this was human nature.

This is true.

But human nature is the lowest common denominator of the human condition.

By contrast God's way is a Highway.

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts."  Isaiah 55:9 (NRSV)

"'make straight in the desert a highway for our God.'"  Isaiah 40:3 (NRSV)

And so we must lift up our minds to higher things:

Equality, justice, charity, generosity, compassion, courage, integrity, honesty.....

And spiritual qualities:

Mercy, forgiveness, unconditional love.

These are the foundations of a higher way.

A Highway that leads to God.

[ Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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