Are you on the highway?

Hebrews chapter 12 speaks of running the race marked out for each of us as believers in Christ. We are to fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. Each of us has our own race to run. The chapter goes on to talk about submitting to God's discipline and being taught by it, gaining the peaceful fruit of righteousness. Then there are these two verses plunked down, " Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. 13 “Make level paths for your feet,”so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed." I keep coming back to them because of my current situation and wondering over them. So I decided to see if there were similar verses elsewhere in the Bible. I found a beautiful passage in Isaiah 35. It has lovely imagery of a desert bursting into bloom. It speaks of the glory and splendor of the Lord. Verses 3 and 4 say, "Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; 4 say to those with fearful hearts “Be strong, do not fear;your God will come he will come with vengeance;with divine retribution he will come to save you." That sounds kind of harsh but God's people, Israel had many enemies from whom He repeatedly saved them. Then it speaks of a highway. "And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness;it will be for those who walk on that Way The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it. 9 No lion will be there,nor any ravenous beast;they will not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there, 10 and those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away." Now, what I want to ask is are you on that highway? Like Israel, we have an enemy from whom we need to be saved. Romans 3:23 says, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," Romans 6:23 says, "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." None of us is good enough to keep all of God's law so if we want to be His and spend eternity with Him we must be saved from our sin by Him. He loves us so much that He sent His Son to pay the penalty for our sin on the cross. We must recognize and acknowledge our sin and then we need to repent and turn from it. If you desire to be saved, pray to Him. Acknowledge that you have sinned and that you repent of that sin and that you need to be saved through the blood that Jesus shed on the cross. Everlasting life and joy await you there.