That High, Holy Road

The Tribal Family is named in reference to this fact: Your family – who they truly are, and what your tribe has to offer the world, is absolutely unique and beautiful.

It also refers to how our familial tribes are one part of a larger tribe – a nomadic people making their way toward their exotic native homeland: God’s Kingdom.

That journey of our tribes – individually and corporately – is the reason for the Tribal Family. We make this journey together.

Scripture sheds light on this journey we are making. It gives hints as to how we are to travel with our families. How to keep the culture of our homeland alive among our tribes as we sojourn through deserts and cultural exile.

Other times Scripture whets our appetites for what it will be like in our home country – finally having arrived: At rest. Celebrating each day in our native country with a life lived "to the fullest". (John 10:10)

Recently, we came across a text telling about a high road into that Kingdom.

In the myriad of texts about "the way" and "the paths" to God's Kingdom, this one shines. It reminds us: each time we return to the right paths, those paths lead to a road which is a pleasure to journey on.

We hope as you mediate on these poetic lines, you – like us – will be encouraged as we journey on, together.

A road will be there and a way;
it will be called the Holy Way.
[...] it will be for the one who walks the path.
Even the fool will not go astray.
There will be no lion there,
and no vicious beast will go up on it;
they will not be found there.
But the redeemed will walk on it,
and the redeemed of the LORD will return
and come to Zion with singing,
crowned with unending joy.
Joy and gladness will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee.

– Isaiah 35:8-10  [HCSB]