The Highway of Holiness

 The Highway of Holiness

On the Highway of Holiness is where we all begin. 

Learning of His ways, listening to Him. 

It begins at the bottom of the steep mountain ahead. 

And we head out on this path, sometimes with dread. 

As we climb the terrain, many times we think it’s impossible 

The terrain is not smooth and there are many obstacles. 

We run out of breath, because spiritually we are not fit. 

Unknown to us, this walk of faith is a workout  bit by bit. 

It’s on this highway of holiness we learn to walk in faith. 

It’s more than just believing, it’s living it day by day. 

Sometimes, we get a reprieve and the path becomes smooth 

But then a little more walking and some rocks become loose 

We then lose our footing and begin to fall. 

And cry in frustration asking ourselves is it worth it at all? 

But we are not walking on this path alone. 

Others come by and pick us up as we walk into the unknown. 

There are few on this path that we walk. 

Others ridicule us for it and at us they gawk. 

But we know and understand our destination. 

And we hike up the hill to our salvation. 

It’s not that we have to take this path in life. 

We can accept Jesus and live in HIs light. 

But there is a higher calling that some of us attain. 

And that is the highway of holiness and its terrain. 

Have you been called to walk this path too? 

Are you ready to join the chosen few?  

You may go to Church each week and say all prayers 

I guarantee you the Highway of holiness is not there. 

The highway of holiness is the high call of God. 

It’s the path that only few take and only few trod. 

So if you're called on this path and you feel alone. 

Know that Christ is walking beside you guiding you home. 

©2024 Sandra C. Johnson

This poem was inspired by one of my favorite authors. I was reading his book “Habakkuk Prophet of Faith" and read the following quotation which inspired the above poem. 

The distance between existence and manifested reality is time, and we walk that distance by faith on the Highway of Holiness (Isaiah 35:8). -Stephen Jones from his Book “Habakkuk: Prophet of Faith Chapter 3-The Life of Faith.”

https://godskingdom.org/studies/books/habakkuk-prophet-of-faith/chapter-3-the-life-of-faith/

Isaiah 35: 8-10 reads: 

And a highway will be there;

    it will be called the Way of Holiness;

    it will be for those who walk on that Way.

The unclean will not journey on it;

    wicked fools will not go about on it.

9 

No lion will be there,

    nor any ravenous beast;

    they will not be found there.

But only the redeemed will walk there,

10 

    and those the Lord has rescued will return.

They will enter Zion with singing;

    everlasting joy will crown their heads.

Gladness and joy will overtake them,

    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.