Further Along the Road

YOUs, like most Muslm people groups, really resonate with the idea of the “Right Road” to God.  When sharing the good news, I like to remind people that Jesus said, “I am the way.”  He is declaring himself to be the “Right Road”- the Only Road, the one true way to come to God.  In our Western way of thinking, we often see conversion as a set point in time; but it has been interesting to talk to some of my YOU friends who are growing in their knowledge and understanding of what it means to follow Jesus.  Many of them are not ready to say, “I am a believer,” but they will say that they are “much further down Jesus’ Road.”  Two young women in the last month have used almost the same wording to say: “For years I felt like I was searching for the Right Road and, while I still don’t know what I really believe, I feel like I am now here (her hands tracing the shape of a long straight road on the coffee table, ending at a location very near the edge) instead of where I was when we first started talking.”  Pray that these women would get to the point that they are ready to “confess with their mouths and believe in their heart that Jesus is Lord,” the one and only way.