“This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’”
Jeremiah 6:16 (NIV)
Paul wants to show us the most excellent way in 1 Cor 13.
Jeremiah wants us to find the good way and walk in it.
Walking on roads and paths is so well known to all people everywhere that our LORD uses it as a metaphor in the Old Testament and the New Testament to reveal the truth that we choose how our lives are lived out. I could say we each choose the direction of our life, which is metaphorical language, combining choice of our life direction (road) and specific actions we take as we move along in that direction (walk). Jeremiah speaks of it as a crossroad, our Lord speaks of it as broad way and narrow way and Paul speaks of it as the most excellent way. They are all teaching that we have personal responsibility in determining how our lives are lived. We can choose the broad way that leads to destruction, or we can choose the narrow way that leads to life. We can choose the ancient path, the good way and walk in it and find rest, or we can be like the Israelites Jeremiah is speaking to and refuse to walk in that good way. No one can make you do it, you must make the choice yourself.
Will I in this moment, choose the way of love, and walk in it as Christ calls us to?
Will I choose to live a life full of loving action towards God?
To love God with everything I am, and everything I do?
Will I choose to live a life full of loving actions to those beside me?
To love my neighbour as myself?
This is the ancient way, the good way, the narrow way, and the most excellent way.
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