God's Highway To Holiness

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(Excerpted from Cheryl Gnagey's Spiritual Healing:  The Surrender That Brings Victory, chapter 9)

"Just as our walk of faith is a progression into the Holy of Holies, we must be able to understand, as well, that our acts of surrender to the God of our lives will also be progressively achieved.  Consider these words of Isaiah:

A highway will be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness.  The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for him who walks that way, and fools will not wander on it.  (Isaiah 35:8)

Compare that now with Luke 3:4b-5 and see what God says to us in the New Testament:

Make ready the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.  Every ravine will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low; the crooked will become straight, and the rough roads smooth.

From what we have learned in the previous chapters, we can sum up and applicably live out these two verses by:

1. Bringing to God the mountain of sins that have been found in our hearts
2. Giving Him full authority and control over them
3. Joining the work of God by taking full vengeance on them
4. Seeking to obey God's every command

This is true surrender.  This is the way to put ourselves on the Highway of Holiness, and it should be the intentional walk of every believer who wishes to walk in the Spirit by surrender and obedience.  There is only one way to make the rough roadways of our heart smooth--God's way, the Highway of Holiness, the road of surrender of everything to God.  When we don't choose to surrender fully to the Lord, we wear the name 'fool.'  And a fool will continue on his own pathway, doing whatever he pleases.  But God's way is for us to bring Him our full surrender with ever-increasing intensity and totality.

The wise will allow God to bring their high and prideful places low.  They also allow God to destroy their sin.  They learn to live in this powerful truth:  God has already destroyed sin's power over us.  Setting all pride aside, the wise allow God to straighten what is crooked (those things that are not aligned with His Word) and smooth out the rough edges of their hearts.  Now can you see the progressive nature of the surrender required on the Highway to Holiness?"

Where are you walking today, child of God?  Are you taking the road of your own making, or are you merging onto the Highway of Holiness?  Determining your destination first will help you choose the correct path.