The Dominant Tone of Waylessness in Social Media

To the prophets and poets of the Bible, life is a wayless wilderness.  

• In it there are many voices crying, "This is the way," 
• many ideals with signposts claiming to point the way.  

It would be interesting to trace the sadness 

• that lays hold of the minds of those who have never known the one and true Living Way, 
• in whose outlook the waylessness of life seems to be the dominant note.  

There are those who ask in a defiant manner 

• why God keeps silence, 
• why He does not show Himself amid all the corruption and shams of life.  
• No wonder their minds deepen into a dark stoicism - enduring pain or hardship without any display of feelings.  
• They never see that God has shown Himself 
• in that He pointed the way out of all the mysteries of life in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Or, there are poets and songwriters, 

• those who have never known The Way - 
• their "sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."  
• The feeling of uncertainty as to the issue, 
• and the strange vagueness of the way is the inspiration of their thought.

Or take our own personal moods 

• when we are roused out of our commonplace composure 
• and the sense grows upon us strongly of the implicit kinship of the human spirit with the untrodden waylessness of life. 
• Until a man finds the Lord Jesus Christ his heart and brain and spirit will lead him astray. 

Adapted Excerpt From The Place of Help by Oswald Chambers