Have you lost your way? Ask for the old paths...

"Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein" (Jer 6:16).

In his inaugural address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt admitted that the U.S.A. had lost its way. "We don't know where we are going," he said, "but we are on our way." Through Jeremiah the Lord admonished his people to consider the paths before them and "ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein..." The people of God had forsaken the ways of the Lord and chose to walk in the ways of the ungodly nations around them. This road (pattern of living) that they were walking on was a road that was leading them to destruction. And the Lord, in His graciousness brought them to a fork in the road where they had the opportunity to repent and get on His path which leads to rest.

The Lord said to His wayward people through Jeremiah, "Ask for the old paths..." For the people in Jeremiah's day the old paths represented the way that God revealed to their ancestors through Moses and others how to live for and worship God. The old paths are not the old fashion way of doing things. Its not about keeping the pews rather then chairs in the sanctuary because its the old fashion way or because it the way we've always done things around here. The old paths is not the traditional way of doings things or the contemporary way of doing things, its the biblical way of doing things. Have you lost your way? Ask for the old paths and walk therein.