ll, though it often takes Him time to make us see. Perhaps
someone annoyed me, and I was irritated. God wants me to see that it
was not the thing that the person did that matters, but my reaction
to it. If I had been broken, I would not have been irritated. So, as
I look longingly back to the Highway, I see the Lord Jesus again and
I see what an ugly thing it is to get irritable and that Jesus died
to save me from being irritable. As I crawl up again to the Highway
on hands and knees, I come again to Him and His Blood for cleansing.
Jesus is waiting there to fill my cup to overflowing once again.
Hallelujah! No matter where you leave the Highway, you will always
find Him calling you to come back and be broken again, and always the
Blood will be there to cleanse and make you clean. This is the great
secret of the Highway--knowing what to do with sin, when sin has come
in. The secret is always to take sin to the Cross, see there its
sinfulness, and then put it under the Blood and reckon it gone.

So the real test all along the Highway will be--are our cups running
over? Have we the peace of God in our hearts? Have we love and
concern for others? These things are the barometer of the Highway. If
they are disturbed, then sin has crept in somewhere--self-pity,
self-seeking, self-indulgence in thought or deed, sensitiveness,
touchiness, self-defence, self-consciousness, shyness, reserve,
worry, fear and so on.

Our walk with Others.

An important thing about the Highway which has not been mentioned yet
is that we do not walk this Highway alone. Others walk it with us.
There is, of course, the Lord Jesus. But there are other wayfarers,
too, and the rule of the road is that fellowship with them is as
important as fellowship with Jesus. Indeed, the two are intimately
connected. Our relationship with our fellows and our relationship
with God are so linked that we cannot disturb one without disturbing
the other. Everything that comes between us and another, such as
impatience, resentment or envy, comes between us and God. These
barriers are sometimes no more than veils--veils through which we can
still, to some extent, see. But if not removed immediately, they
thicken into blankets and then into brick walls, and we are shut off
from both God and our fellows, shut in to ourselves. It is clear why
these two relationships should be so linked. "God is love," that is
love for others, and the moment we fail in love towards another,