If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the
land;
but if you resist and
rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.”
Isaiah 1:19-20
The experience is given
of a man of God who repeats twice his very clear and precise instruction from
the Lord, first to the king of Judah and then to another prophet. "For I was commanded
by the word of the Lord: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by
the way you came'" (1 Kings 13:9). With the king, the man of God insisted on
following God's instruction, and took what I am calling the "road
less traveled."
He was later persuaded by an old prophet, who lied to him, to
disobey God's instruction. The man of
God stepped off the "road less traveled" and followed the direction of
the old prophet. What was the result of
his disobedience, you may be thinking?
Well, a lion met the man of God on his way home and killed him. Are you now thinking, God, why? What did he do to deserve this gruesome loss
of life? He believed that the prophet of
God was being truthful with him. Wasn't
that a reasonable assumption for him to make?
God, are there really disastrous consequences when you direct us
to the "road less traveled" and we take another? My friend, are you willingly and obediently
following the "road less traveled?"
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