If you have trouble following directions, then these marvels
of engineering called interchanges will give you trouble. That five cent gas
coupon from Safeways is swallowed up in the five mile drive to return to the
same spot if you miss your turning!
But
it’s not just finding the right exit, it’s knowing which lane to be in to take
it. And even if you know, crossing multiple lanes of fast moving traffic to get
there can be hazardous to your health.
I recall a number of occasions driving the M25, a ring road
around London; four or five lanes in each direction filled with traffic pushing
the 110 kph speed limit.
My brother-in-law called it “The wall of deaf” (like
many English he couldn’t pronounce th), recalling the circular cage where trick
motorcyclists ride horizontally.
The only time the traffic slows down is for the frequent
accidents that close some lanes. On one occasion, I was held up thirty miles from the M25 because of an accident on
it, with a couple of daughters racing to catch a plane. They just made it!
These
interchanges are like life, confusing and dangerous. What makes it worse is the
lack of proper signs, or worse, the absence of them. And just imagine the
confusion if all exits pointed to the same destination—like the fatuous
statement that all beliefs lead to God!
I must admit to sympathy with those trying to find the exit
to Truth, especially when all the exits point that way. Postmodernists are half-right
when they say truth is relative. All “truths” derived from earthly sources are
temporary; often in conflict, misleading, or deliberately false. 
It
is only the eternal transcendent Truth, existing before time began and
continuing beyond time, which can take us through the interchanges of life to
our desired destination. All earthly truth is only a shadow or attempted
subversion of that Truth, and is destined to perish at the end of time.
Jesus Christ is the Way and that eternal Truth. He alone can
provides the right exists in life. All other ways are a dead end.
