“As usual pouring over books and making calculations.
Can’t you make a decent
living like the others in the village?
You study and study and nothing ever comes out of it.” John’s wife
chided him.
My people are destroyed for want of knowledge Hosea
4:6 CJB “haven’t
you read that verse, woman?
It will do you some good to read the bible sometime instead of
nagging me all the time”. John said walked away in a huff.
She went to close the books and saw that one was the bible.
“How was he ever going to make a livelihood studying the bible?
She spoke out aloud.
This man is never going to make it in life, we will always be like
this stuck in our drab lives.” She shut all the books piled it up neatly and
went about her work.
He returned a little while later dragging huge planks of wood in
his cart.
Religiously for days on end he worked cutting plank tracks.
It took John and his men three days to reach the
cart to the borders of the desert
They worked on the leveling the low lying dunes
and
assembled two parallel plank tracks, each
25" wide, spiked them to wooden cross pieces underneath
“This makes a pretty decent road, doesn’t it," the men exclaimed excited after they finished work on a 12 feet section.
“This makes a pretty decent road, doesn’t it," the men exclaimed excited after they finished work on a 12 feet section.
“It sure does!” John replied with a broad smile.
They then loaded their cart with rocks and tested how smoothly it
ran over the section...
“Wow! …a plank road in the desert, this is great news”.
They could barely wait till they reached back
home and told the entire village
They made a plan to make a highway in the desert 6 and half
miles long to connect their village to the one across the desert.
“Can you imagine how trade will increase with this highway ?” one of them exclaimed.
Plans were soon drawn to raise the funds for the "desert high way."
“How on earth did you come up with this plan?”
john’s wife asked him later on
“From the studying the bible of course…where else
“.John replied.
CJB Isaiah 35:1-3
The desert and the dry
land will be glad;
The ‘Aravah will rejoice
and blossom like the lily.
2 It will burst into flower,
Will rejoice with joy and
singing,
Will be given the glory of
the L’vanon,
The splendor of Karmel and
the Sharon.
They will see the glory
of Adonai,
the splendor of our God.
CJB Isaiah 35:8-3
8 A highway will be there, a
way,
called the Way of
Holiness.
The unclean will not pass
over it,
but it will be for those
whom he guides —
fools will not stray along
it.
9 No lion or other beast of
prey
will be there, traveling
on it.
They will not be found
there,
but the redeemed will go
there.
10 Those ransomed by Adonai will
return
and come with singing to
Tziyon,
on their heads will be
everlasting joy.
They will acquire gladness
and joy,
while sorrow and sighing
will flee.
