“You’re Going the Wrong Way!”

In the 1987 film, “Planes, Trains & Automobiles”, John Candy is driving in the wrong direction down an interstate highway.  Unaware that he is on the wrong side of the road, an oncoming vehicle slows down and tries to alert him that he is “going the wrong way”.  John Candy then laughs at these people, and raises his hand to gesture that they must be drinking.  He asks Steve Martin, “How do they know we are going the wrong way?” and then finally, it dawns on both of them that they are in a one-way lane going the wrong way.

What would the world be like if there was no one to speak the truth, and tell us we are heading the wrong way?  This is the job of Christians.  Just like in the movie, we may be laughed at and mocked.  Others may think we are crazy.  And yet, this is what Jesus meant when He said that we are to be salt and truth for the world.  Today, when our government has legalized gay marriage, abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and even euthanasia in a few states, there is a great need for the Christian to speak up with the same urgency as in the film when “going the wrong way” would result in grave bodily harm.  For Jesus told us not to fear one who would kill the body, but rather , the one who would kill the soul.  Speak up we must, until our society is once again on the right path.