The Wayfarers: When We Know in That Moment

There are many ways in which our lives may be suddenly struck by an immortal moment, 

• when the true issues of our lives, 
• "the spirit's true endowments stand out plainly from its false ones," 
• and we know in that moment whether we are "pursuing the right way or the wrong way, to its triumph or undoing."  

Such a moment 

• may come by conviction of sin, 
• or it may come through the opening up of the vast isolation of our own nature which makes us afraid.  

Or it may come 

• with the feeling that somewhere we will meet One who will put us on the way to solve our implicit questions, 
• One Who will satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, 
• and put within our hands the key to unlock the secret treasures of life.  

There are many gates into the Holy City, 

• and many avenues by which God may enter the human soul.

To all whose souls have been awakened by these moods or by conviction of sin, 

• for whom life has been profoundly altered so that it can never be the same again - 
• to all such the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ comes as the voice of the Eternal: "I am the Way."  

If we will resign ourselves in implicit trust to the Lord Jesus, 

• we will find that He leads the wayfaring soul into the green pastures and beside the still waters, 
• so that even when we go through the dark valley of the shadow of some staggering episode, 
• we will fear no evil.  

Nothing 

• in life or death, 
• time or eternity, 
• can stagger our soul from the certainty of the Way for one moment.

Adapted Excerpt From The Place of Help by Oswald Chambers