“In the way of Righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.”
— Proverbs 12:28
Image taken by Miriam, all credit to God.
The word “Christian” appears three times in the KJV of the New Testament. The word “Christianity” does not appear at all. The way of righteousness is alluded to three times in the New Testament and three times in the Old, all of which are in Proverbs. Jesus came to give us life, and that more abundantly. Isaiah wrote of “a highway and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness” that the unclean shall not walk on, “but the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein (Isaiah 35:8)”. The redeemed and the ransomed will travel by this path all the way to Zion, our glorified state.
The way of righteousness is not a path we can walk in our own strength. Just as every year people try to hike Mount Washington here in New Hampshire alone only to perish off some obscure path or cliff, the Christian life is far too perilous to travel alone. We are not migratory birds that will travel the right way over long distances year in and year out on pure instinct. But the Lord knows the path well because it is His, and He leads us in paths of righteousness for his Name’s sake (Ps 23:3).
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father but by me.” —John 14:6
Selah.
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