Two Roads

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet who received 4 Pulitzer Prizes and it maybe most known for his poem “The Road Not Taken:”

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood, And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, And I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Frost’s analysis of life is right on! There are two roads in life and Jesus’ in the Sermon on the Mount says the same thing. There are two roads or two ways of life available to every person. And the only thing I might say different from Frost is that last line; it is not one road makes the difference but either road will make all the difference, because either road or path has eternal consequences (Ps 6:1).

Most people will choose the ungodly way. What of you? Will you swim upstream? Which road are you traveling? You can be famous and a celebrity today but forgotten tomorrow. But if you walk the godly road, you will be known throughout eternity in the most important way to be known – known of God.

If you want to know more about the two roads, read Psalm 1.