Gods Highway called the Way of Holiness

Gods Highway is the Way of Holiness. While many find religion, you need the path to Holiness found in the Son of God. There was once a Highway I embarked on. It lead me to an encounter that to this day I remember to the depth of my soul. I was raised in Church, but the real story begins where that church left off. The truth of walking, having faith, and learning; was yet to come through a very hard path. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight

Gods Highway is the Way of Holiness

I remember well that patch of green wild prairie grass alongside the road out of Rawlins Wyoming. It is distant memory, yet it is close enough to touch. The highway had connections to Lander and other cities and was the main road heading north to Casper. Yet, for me, trouble and turmoil had come to a head. That was many years ago and for a child growing up a Methodist with Grandparents who were Methodist and farmers; this was a long way from the farm. Yet in miles, a not so far away place. However, I found myself in a real world with a life situation and troubles that mounted. As a result, the place I knew as home as a child was now light-years away.

The church I went to was one where our families had gone. My grandmother and grandfather homesteaded the area coming to the valley in a covered wagon. They made a plain simple lifestyle with hard work. The Indians were close by and life went on this way. Grandpa dealt with the Indians who were Shoshone and Arapahoe. Yet in this hard lifestyle, there was time on Sunday’s to go to church after feeding the animals and tending to farm chores. This was the main stay of many people back then. For these it was a life of hard work, early to bed, early to rise, and then to church on Sunday’s. I was raised this way.

But the church was not very in-depth in the way of holiness or of sins. I do not recall every being told “I needed to be saved.” For that matter if anyone needed to be saved, or walk in the way of the Lord, it was not taught. As the Apostle Paul said “we are of them who believe to the saving of the soul.” The Methodist church had lost it’s fire and zeal along time ago. Hence, this was not taught or discussed as I knew it. Everything was tradition and hardline denominational teachings.

However, it was the way people did things back then. Life had been hard, but it was not as hard as in the beginning. With a more comfortable lifestyle, people did not think about sin and it’s punishment. They focused on life, work, and going to church. They knew of God and God’s son Jesus. But for the most part they did not accept or receive him. They were not taught in-depth that I knew of. I learned the bible stories well. But things got tough as I grew older.

As I knelt alongside that road on that sunny day, I knew at that moment I was a sinner. I knew I needed the Lord Jesus Christ. I knew I was in rebellion. I had also heard the “voice of who I knew to be the Lord”. Who spoke to me in the cab of the truck and I pulled over immediately and was solidly and thoroughly convicted. It was something I never learned in church. They never told me this part. I never heard this preached, that is, until after I had received the Lord. It was then my wife and I found a local church that did preach salvation.

Gods Highway called the Way of Holiness -Revelation

(1) And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. (2) And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (3) And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. (4) And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. (5) And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. (6) And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. (7) He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (8) But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Rev 21:1-8

On the cross Jesus said “it is finished”. The atonement for our sins and the penalty to be paid by the Passover Lamb was done. No more would men die for their sins when they did not keep the covenant. That is if they would repent and accept the Lamb, the sacrifice of God who was given for their sins. It was free, yet it cost everything. It was eternal, yet it was given to those without a hope of eternity with God. This Lamb is Yeshua, Jesus Christ; the Passover Lamb.

We then see above in Revelation twenty one and verse six the words telling us again “it is done.” The first one told us our atonement was completed. The next step would be for those whom Christ died for to repent and follow him. The final step is seen here in this process, where the “Alpha and Omega”, the Lord himself says “It is done.” With those three words, and the vision of the holy city, the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven we know our full, final, and complete salvation had come to a completion.