The parable of the wrong way driver
The other day on the freeway there were two incidents of wrong way drivers
within a 24 hour period. The first accident involved two vehicles and both
drivers were killed. The second one only the driver who was in the wrong was
killed the other was not. There have been a number of wrong way driver
incidents in which the drivers were not killed but injuries occurred. The
highway patrol has been alerted and seeks to to stop the wrong way driver and
keep him from injury and death.
This is an analogy to the highway to heaven or the covenant path. The covenant
that leads us to our father in heaven and it is that we don’t have to pay
anything for it, we just have to keep on the covenant path. This covenant path
leads to our father in heaven and exaltation in the celestial kingdom all we
have to do is keep our covenants. The covenant path begins with baptism into The
Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints and we keep on that covenant path
by keeping our Heavenly Father’s and Jesus’ commandments and in addition we
covenant in the temple to do certain things and we covenant to obey all of our Father’s
commandments and in addition in the covenant of marriage we bind ourselves in a
covenant relationship to another individual for time and all eternity.
So what has this to do with wrong-way drivers?
Just as on the freeway there are wrong-way drivers on the covenant path to exaltation in the Celestial Kingdom. These wrong way drivers are often well-meaning people who think they are going the right way. They may misread the scriptures; or have an agenda of their own. They blindly travel down the covenant path and try to get others to follow their doctrine and principles. By so doing they die spiritually and in some cases cause others to die spiritually as well. Just as in the first case cited above.
Sometimes only one wrong way driver loses his direction on the covenant path and because he does not heed the direction given through the prophets and apostles and the holy scriptures, he loses his way,turns in the wrong direction and eventually crashes and loses his life in the spiritual sense. There are direction signs to guide on the freeway. They must be heeded just as the directions in the scriptures and from the prophets must be heeded while we are on the covenant path. We can thus avoid loosing our life by going the wrong way on our path back to our Father in Heaven.
Follow the prophet. Don’t go astray is Grandpa’s advice.
