The Road Less Traveled

Regardless of where we live, we should all be on the Lord's path. It's not always an easy road to traverse, but the journey is rewarding and the destination eternally wonderful. In Matthew 7: 14, the Lord warned that many wouldn't follow Him—

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.


The Lord's path has taken me to Fairview, Tennessee

Each day, we must choose if we will take the pathway of the Lord or the parkway of popular culture. The former route is narrow and rarely traveled, but it leads to eternal life and provides joy to those who follow it. The latter route is wide, attractive and busy, but its travelers wander without purpose until they reluctantly arrive at a place of misery and regret.

The Lord's path has taken me to Fairview, Tennessee, where I serve as a full-time missionary. That same path might take you to one of millions of places around the world, but the destination is the same. The goals, the doctrines, the principles are all the same. And though our joys and sorrows may be unique, we know that Jesus Christ has experienced everything we have experienced through the Atonement. He understands everything you are going through.

If we will commit each day to take the Lord's path, narrow and difficult though it may be, we will be blessed with happiness and peace. Consider the closing stanza of Robert Frost's famous poem The Road Not Taken:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Indeed, in my life, that has made all the difference.