Right Left Right
Author: Chrissy S.
20 August 2003
It was about 2 in the morning. My friends were over- two girls, two guys.
Obviously, it was late, it was time for the guys to leave. The guys lived a
good drive from my place. I lived off the interstate, not far from the country.
From my house you took one right, one left and then you get on the ramp to
the interstate. Well, as a joke we were saying to the guys left, right, left.
We thought that they might have remembered from the last time they were over.
But instead they went left, right, left- out into the country. My friend took
off running, my dog bolted out of her bed and began barking like a psycho,
and I stood there staring at the street. We later drove off to try and find
them, but had no luck. A great joke, eh? I think they wanted to kill us at
church the next day. The truth was right, left, right...that was the way- the
way they did not go.
In John 14:6 (NASB), Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life;
no one comes to the Father but through me.” The joke that my friend and
I played on our other friends is similar to the cruel joke that Satan has on
us. Satan constantly points us in the opposite direction than we should be
gong. “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be
tempted by the devil. And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights,
He then became hungry. And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You
are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread. But He answered
and said, “If it is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone,
but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God’.” Then
the devil took Him into the holy city and had Him stand on the pinnacle of
the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God , throw Yourself
down, for it is written ‘He will command His angels concerning You;’ and ‘On
their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not strike your foot against
a stone’.” “ Jesus said to him, “On the other hand,
it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to test.’.”
