The Fork in the Road
“Choose you this day whom ye will serve.”
—JOSH. 24:15
Every day there is a necessity of choice—a fork in the road.
“Shall I do this, or shall I do that? Shall I go, or shall I stay?” Many people do not know what to do. They rush about letting other people make decisions for them, then regret having taken their advice.
There are others who carefully reason things out. They weigh and measure the situation like dealing in groceries, and are surprised when they fail to obtain their goal.
There are still other people who follow the magic path of intuition and find themselves in their Promised Land in the twinkling of an eye.
Intuition is a spiritual faculty high above the reasoning mind, but on the path is all that you desire or require.
So choose ye this day to follow the magic path of intuition.
In my question-and-answer classes I describe how to cultivate intuition. In most people it is a faculty that has remained dormant. So we say, “Awake thou that sleepeth. Wake up to your leads and hunches. Wake up to the divinity within!”
Claude Bragdon said, “To live intuitively is to live fourth dimensionally.”
Now, it is necessary for you to make a decision, you face a fork in the road. Ask for a definite unmistakable lead, and you will receive it.
We find many events to interpret metaphysically in the Book of Joshua. “After the death of Moses, the divine command came to Joshua, ‘Now therefore, arise, go over the Jordan, thou and all thy people, unto the land which I do give to them. Every place the sole of your feet shall tread upon; to you have I given it’.”
The feet are the symbol of understanding, so it means metaphysically all that we understand stands under us in consciousness, and what is rooted there can never be taken from us.
For, the Bible goes on to say: “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life … I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: ‘turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest’.”
So we find we have success through being strong and very courageous in following spiritual law. We are back again to the “fork in the road”—the necessity of choice.
“Choose you this day whom ye will serve,” the intellect or divine guidance.
So, as we reach the fork in the road today, let us fearlessly follow the voice of intuition.
The Bible calls it “the still small voice.”
“There came a voice behind me, saying, ‘This is the way, walk ye in it’.” On this path is the good, already prepared for you. You will find the “land for which ye did not labor, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and olive yards which ye planted not, do ye eat.”
Let us say: I am divinely led, I follow the right fork in the road. God makes a way where there is no way.