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The Road Trip of road trips


Travel magazines and web sites dedicated to travel often feature stories about road trips.  They often highlight road trips according to a person’s interests: road trips for foodies, road trips for music lovers, road trips for museums, road trips for outdoor enthusiasts.  Whatever your preference, short or long, pack your car, jump in, buckle up and head out.

So, what might your choice of road trips be?  Route 66?  Highway 101?  One of the Interstates?

There is a Highway described in the Bible that I would suggest is The Road Trip of road trips. It is also a rather unique highway.  It is “reserved for those authorized to use it” (New English Translation - NET).

Those not authorized, well, different versions of the Bible use different words but none are especially endearing:

Simple ones and fools (Amplified)
Wicked fools (NIV)
The unclean (NASB/NET)

So who then is authorized to us it (NET)?  Again, look at how other versions define that:

It shall be for the redeemed (Amplified)
It will be for those who walk in the Way (NIV)
For him that walks that way (NASB)

The editors and translators for the NET (New English Translation) note that those authorized are likely “…morally upright people who are the recipients of God’s deliverance”.

Since redemption and deliverance are closely related, I think that if there is a singular word for those authorized to use this Highway, I’d go with “redeemed”. 

This Highway is called the Highway of Holiness (Isa 35:8 NASB).  It is a highway built by God and traveled on only by the redeemed!

I think it is The Road Trip of road trips!


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