Friday Devotional:

Mark 1:1-15



Picture a giant bulldozer moving dirt across the land-leveling the hills, filling in the valleys, and rounding sharp corners. John the Baptist was called to prepare the way for Jesus, but he didn't rearrange the landscape and leave a tidy, easy path for Jesus to walk. Rather, while John's unconventional ministry brought hope to some, it angered many others. He was murdered by an empire that would later kill Jesus, too. It doesn't seem that Jesus' paths were made straight!

Jesus' path was more like this line from the writer Edward Abbey's memoir, Desert Solitaire: "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view."

Our paths in life are seldom straight. They follow tangents, lead to apparent dead ends, and traverse steep hills and deep crevices. Yet God somehow makes a way through for us to experience God's love and hope. God prepares a place for us, no matter how crooked our path home.

Constant Friend, help us to trust in you on life's journey, until we are at home with you. Amen.

An excerpt from Christ in Our Home

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