Central Stations can be impressive, quite often with huge spacious entrance halls. There are clocks and indicators with crowds of people heading off in different directions. There are the metro trains with their underground networks, and there are the country tracks heading off to far away locations. It is a central hub, pulsing with the excitement of travel, as individuals arrive and depart.

Central station can be used as an analogy of becoming a Christian and living out our lives with Jesus. The imperative is to make sure we do have that central relationship with the Lord himself. To participate in the Kingdom of God, we must experience spiritual change, (John 3:5). To know him is paramount!

To continue with the central station analogy, we can see how Christians have individual lives to live. We don’t all travel on the same train route or with the same destination, for God has different plans for each of us. Our personal life travel plan is of course, available by the Holy Spirit, (Romans 8:14).

Like trains travelling to a timetable the network of Christian pathways works according to God’s overall plan. Different tracks in different directions, but all under the design of the master controller. Like travellers who check platforms and departure times we must also be at the right place at the right time.

It is often said that we are all on a journey. Whilst that is true it is important that our journey starts at ‘Central Station’ Jesus Christ… for He is the WAY, (John 14:6). To travel through life in any other way is not God’s way. But if our life journey is with the Lord the way he leads, will be the perfect one for us.