Life with Jesus Christ is a journey, and that journey is quite an adventure.  It’s an adventure that travels down a long narrow road through beautiful lush countryside, past rivers and streams, flat plains, and sometimes even through hot, dry deserts.  We may find ourselves struggling up a long steep mountain slope, wondering if we’ll ever reach the top… When we finally get to the top of the mountain, the view from the mountaintop is so fantastic to behold that we might forget all about the climb.

As we go along, we might see something off to the side of the road; we might leave the road to go and check it out; we might even tarry there for quite a long time.  Then we look up and see that our travelling party is way far off in the distance, and we must get ourselves back on the path and hurry to catch up. When we get back with the group, we are really glad to get there, because when we travel on our life’s journey with Jesus, we are walking in the very presence of God.

As our adventure continues, we will meet other people along the way.  People along the side of the narrow road will ask us about our adventure, and when we tell them some will think we are crazy, others might say we’re stupid for the effort, but there will always be those who want to know more about the adventure; some of those will decide to join us in our adventure with Jesus Christ.

As we continue, those new adventurers will ask us more questions, and we will take them under our wing and teach them all about Jesus.  One day, they will speak to the people we meet on the side of the road, and more new ones will join with us.  As time goes on our travelling party will grow larger and larger as we share our story about travelling through life with Jesus Christ…

The farther down that narrow road that we go with Jesus, the less and less we will worry about distractions on either side.  Why would we care about those things when we are travelling through our adventure in the presence of God?

The day will eventually come when we are just about to reach our ultimate destination.  We will come to one last river…  When Jesus takes us across that last river, we will have a room in the household of God Himself, and I would imagine that as we stretch out on our bed there to rest from our long and exciting adventure through this life, we will think back on those we met along the narrow road who joined with us and be filled with joy beyond measure because we did our part to help them become His disciples and join the adventure.  I doubt will we will ever waste a single moment thinking about the roadside distractions that we left behind.