We enjoy road trips on roads that sometimes aren’t really roads. Do you know about the low-water bridge over the Whitewater River along Tawakoni Road, for example? Or how to get from Matfield Green to Emporia the back way?
We travel those trips with a Kansas Gazeteer. The gazeteer shows the State of Kansas in small chunks that are enlarged enough to show an area of approximately 30 miles east to west and 40 miles north to south.
In other words, every little thing is on those pages.
Except every little thing may or may not still be in use. We have encountered many passages that do not appear on the map.
We have also found roads that appeared on the map but were no longer passable for one reason or another.
In other words, there is enough information on the map to make it a useful tool in navigating, but enough has changed to make a good deal of faith necessary.
Hmmmm.
Road maps. Journeys. Faith.
This is starting to sound a lot like the Christian walk.
There is in every life patches of good road, patches of bad road and patches of two-track or overgrown foot paths.
Every life is provided with a ‘gazeteer’ more detailed and accurate than anything created by man. It is called the Bible. All the information we need to get from birth to eternity is presented between those covers.
But it is written in such a manner that it also requires a great deal of faith to follow. We are given the rules and principles. We are not shown every step. It is up to us to use it.
Yes, it is possible to get from Matfield Green to Emporia the back way without the gazeteer, but it’s a lot better to follow the map!
Our faith journey is impossible to successfully complete without following the map.
My husband, Neal, and I enjoy road trips.