"Choose you this day whom ye will serve...but as for me
 and my house, we will serve the LORD." - Joshua 24:15

WE WILL SERVE THE LORD...AND IMPACT OUR PATHWAY.

If you have ever traveled America's highways, then chances are you've seen their sign alongside the road.

The Adopt-A-Highway program has been working in cooperation with local, state and national companies to clean up and beautify the nation's road system.

Businesses, both large and small can "adopt" a stretch of highway in order to provide cleaning and maintenance for the section. In exchange for supporting the Adopt-A-Highway program, these businesses are allowed to advertise their company through custom paneled signs.

In recent years, a growing number of Adopt-an-Intersection and even Adopt-a-Community projects have sprung up. Again, the focus is on cleaning up and bringing beauty to specified intersection or community.

As I thought about passing by one such sign earlier this week, the thought struck me...

...we, as believers in Christ Jesus, ought to start our own adoption program. Maybe an Adopt-a-Neighborhood program. Or, perhaps an Adopt-a-Place of Employment program. How about an Adopt-a-Grocery Store or an Adopt-a-Post Office?

Better still, we could begin a program to encompass everywhere we go...

...an Adopt-a-Pathway project.

The point? To help clean up and bring beauty to the lives of those in our everyday pathway. That's right, our friends, family members, co-workers, neighbors and business associates. Those in our everyday pathway.

The clerk at the grocery store, those in front of and behind us at Wal-Mart, the person who cuts our hair, the folks we pass while walking through the parking lot at the mall...those in our pathway.

Why not start an Adopt-a-Pathway project where we do our best to help clean up and bring beauty to the lives of those we meet each day? A friendly smile, a word of encouragement, a helping hand, a look of concern, a listening ear, a shoulder to cry on...these are just a few of the ways to adopt our pathways.

And, why should we do it? To advertise, of course! By beginning our Adopt-a-Pathway program we get to advertise the King of Kings, Jesus Christ. You see, when we help clean up and bring beauty into the lives of others, there will naturally be an opportunity to tell them the reason we are doing it. The reason is to show the love of Christ to them. Actions speak louder than words, you know.

What about it, Christian? Feel like adopting today? Why not make an effort to help clean up the dirty and cluttered lives of others...

...and bring the beauty of the Gospel into their pathway?!  

Have a "Wonderful DAY in Christ,"
Jimmy D. Brown
\o/ Praise Jesus!