The Road Less Traveled, part 3

Life is indeed choice driven as my pastor often reminds us.  He goes on to say that we live and we die by the choices we make.  As the Israelites were setting out for the promised land, Moses pleaded with his brother-in-law, Hobab, to travel with them and serve as their eyes because he knew the desert and wilderness through which they would likely travel (see Numbers 10:29-31).  Each of the two men had choices to make.  Moses made the choice to seek help from one he knew.  Should he have trusted God to lead them as He had been doing?  Whose direction would he choose to follow -- God's direction, his own direction, or Hobab's direction?  Was God's way likely what I choose to call the "road less traveled?"

The choice for Hobab was whether to leave his family or go with Moses and a people he did not know?  For him, which was to be his "road less traveled?"  Moses certainly pleaded with him to go.  What was God's will in the matter? As we find, Hobab chose not to go.

Difficult choices are ever before us. Go or stay? Which road would God have me take? The high road or the low road?  North or south? East or west? Highway or byway? This job or that one? Marry this one or that one?  Go to school or go to work?  Do both?  Take the path of least resistance?  Make this purchase now? Buy or rent? New car or used one? Unplanned pregnancy -- abort or deliver? Leave home or stay? God's way or the world's way?  The road most traveled or the "road less traveled?"