the freeway

I heard this on the radio the other day and I think it is a very good analogy. If you are driving on the freeway and you need to get off on a certain exit and you accidently pass that exit do you just keep on driving? Do you say "oops, I misssed my exit, guess I'll just keep on going even though I don't know where I'm headed now, and I'll probably get lost and it won't be easy to get back where I was going." No, that's silly. You would turn around as fast as you could and get back to where you are going. So why don't we do that in life. When we sin we have a habit of saying "oops God, I sinned, please forgive me" but then we keep on sinning. We keep on heading down the freeway getting farther and farther away from our destination. We get lost. And it isn't easy to get back. In life we need to recognize that if we keep on sinning, we get further and further away from God. We can pray and ask for forgiveness all we want but until we stop the sin, until we turn around and say "God I'm coming back on track" our lives will keep going out of control. How foolish we are to think we can keep on sinning and denying the fact that we are off track. The fact of the matter is there is one road, one way and any other way is just the enemy fooling us into destruction. What road are you on today? Did you miss your exit?