This man seems to be in trouble, for he has found that his horse has lost its shoe. It may be that the road ahead of him is very rough and steep, and that he fears the horse may stumble and fall. He wants to travel rapidly, and wants to be sure that his horse has a sure footing over these dangerous roads.
Do you know that you are traveling a roadway, too, day by day? In the Bible God tells us about two roads; one is broad, and the other is narrow. You are traveling one of these two. In Matthew 7:1313Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: (Matthew 7:13) and 14 we read,
“Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat;” and,
“Narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it.”
Most people choose the broad road, because they want to do as they please, and not listen to the Lord Jesus; but in order to be happy we must choose the narrow way, where the Lord Jesus will walk with us.
God tells us just where the broad road ends, and where the narrow way ends. The broad road ends in hell, with the devil and his angels.
The narrow way ends in heaven, with the Lord Jesus, and with all those who Lave accepted Him as their own Saviour while they were in this life.
The two roads end very far apart, with a great gulf fixed between, so that none can go from one place to the other, but have to remain forever in the place where their road ends, God has told us, Jesus is the way to eternal life. Following Satan and his ways, ends in everlasting torment, so now we cannot say we do not know which road we are traveling, God tells us:
ML 05/11/1941