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Chaotic Traffic
Psalm 32:8
One of the most distinctive experiences from my visit to Hyderabad, India, was the chaotic traffic. Hyderabad is a city of about 10 million people, densely packed, and the traffic is unreal. In many places, it’s one big traffic jam. There is no coherence, no unified direction. It’s every man for himself. Cars are cutting each other off. All you hear is cars honking at one another. It’s tough to even make sense of what’s going on.
That’s a pretty good picture of life in this world sometimes. It can be a chaotic mess. People are scrambling to push past one another, to climb over one another, to get ahead in life. We’re stressed at home. We’re stressed at work. Tragedy strikes. It’s tough to make sense of what’s even going on sometimes. And that’s why Jesus came to this world. So that we might have peace in the chaotic traffic and mess of life.
He was born as one of us in this chaotic world 2000 years ago. But he never fell into the traps of the chaos. He never scrambled to get ahead of others. He lived a perfect life of loving service toward all those around him living in perfect peace with all those around him, even to the point of giving up his life on the cross. So that through faith in him, you might have peace in the midst of the chaos of this world so that you might know you are forgiven. So that you might have the way opened up to you, to heaven.
He is the way, the truth and the life. He continues to guide us on that way as he carries us to the heavenly home that he won for us as he shines his word on our path. We read in Psalm 32, verse eight.
I will make you wise. I will instruct you in the way that you should go. I will guide you, keeping my eye on you. (Psalm 32:8)
Through his word, he guides us through the chaotic mess of this life to the perfect pastures of peace waiting for us in heaven. Praise be to the one who is the way, the truth and the life. Praise be to the one who gives us peace in the chaos of this world. May this peace be yours as his word shines a light on your path as he leads you to your heavenly home. Amen.
