In Lewis Carroll's childhood classic "Alice in Wonderland", when Alice comes to a crossroads and does not know which road to take, she turns to the Cheshire cat for advice.  The cat asks, "Where are you going?" Alice replies, "I don't know." The cat responds, "Well if you don't know where you are going, any road will do very nicely."

How is your sense of direction in life? Do you know where you are going? Or will 'any road' suffice?

John Wesley was instrumental in bringing a fresh spiritual awakening on both sides of the Atlantic. Historians record that it was the preaching of John Wesley and George Whitefield that preserved England from the kind of bloody revolution that took place in France. Wesley not only spearheaded the Methodist Movement, the organization of dynamic cell groups that discipled such Social Reformers as the slave-emancipator, William Wilberforce, but he traveled to preach the gospel in the New World, bolstering the spiritual foundations of the emerging United States of America.

I have written Wesley's words on the inside cover of my Bible: "I am a creature of the day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God and returning to God, just hovering over the great gulf, till a few moments hence, I am no more seen. I drop into an unchangeable eternity! I want to know one thing - the way to heaven, how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way. For this very end He came from heaven. He has written it down in a book! Oh give me that book. At any price give me that book of God. I have it: here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be a man of one book."

That one book is actually a library of 66 books written over a period of 1500 years by forty different authors with one undeniable theme: God's redeeming work through His promised Messiah who will also be the Judge in the Last Day.

Our ultimate destination in life is made clear in the Bible. We see that Jesus did not come to give us a list of do's and don'ts. He came to give us an empowered way to live in a right relationship with God and with each other; a way to the Father through faith in all that He is and all that He has done on our behalf to make these relationships of peace possible. Christians were first called 'believers', 'disciples', 'Christ-followers' or followers of "the Way". They were known by the path they were on.

We are told that we were created to live for His glory. Our objective should be to glorify Him in all that we do (1Corinthians 10:31). He has given us gifts and talents, time and financial resources to be used to advance His purposes for the good of society. "Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms." (1Peter 4:10). He has given us directives to guide us at every crossroads of decision.

Is this the road you are traveling on? If not, check your life-map and notice that this is the only road that leads to where you will eventually want to be.