The Wrong Path Dream

9/29/25 11:14 AM
Solitary Man
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At the end of a restless and troubled night of little sleep, I finally was able to enter a solid state of sleep at the end.  I had a dream, and this is what occurred.

As I have stated previously, whenever I have a dream that contains an element of someplace that I have lived in the past, that is the sign that the Lord seems to use to indicate that the dream is of him.  That, and the fact that I do not easily forget the details, even hours after I awaken.

In this dream I found myself driving along a country road.  The road was the back road that one would use to reach the small town that I grew up in.  While there is a paved road that reaches this town from 3 different directions, there is also this one dirt road, that one can take in order to reach this town.

Somewhere along this road, there was some sort of obstacle in the way, and before I knew it, I was now driving on a broad field.  I was sure in my mind that I had followed this narrow path, but somehow something made me veer off into this broad field, all the while that I was convinced that I was still following the road.  The deviation happened so quickly that I could not quite recall what I had seen, or why I was convinced that I chose the correct direction, when obviously, I had not.

The scene was one of early winter.  There was some snow on the ground.  Not enough to get stuck in, but enough to make it difficult to manoeuvre.  It was also chilly.

As I was trying to get back to the place where I had veered off the correct path, I found myself getting almost stuck on an incline.  When I stepped out of the car and looked to one side, there was a house that seemed to have a yard that was still in the middle of summer.  That is, everything was a vibrant green, and the yard looked pristine and very well kept.  A friendly older woman was there, and as we fell into conversation, I asked for directions back to where I had made a wrong turn.  She kept wanting to know if I wanted to get back to the highway, and in my confusion, I said yes.  But then I started to realize that I really did not want to get back on any highway, but rather the road that I was travelling on that was a narrow dirt road.  But then a man also jumped in and both were yammering on about how to get to the highway, while I was feeling confused, and trying to explain where I actually wanted to go, but couldn’t seem to get in a word edgewise.  My brain felt sluggish in the presence of these nice, but somewhat overbearing people.  Finally I sort of snapped out of it and decided that I needed to get away from these ‘helpers’ and set out to reacquire the road myself.  I looked up and knew the direction that I was supposed to go, and purposed to head there.

Then I woke up.

The interpretation given me was as follows:  I think all of us recognize hints of Jesus’ famous parable of the broad road and the narrow one.  I was heading home on the narrow path.  Along the way, something out of the blue temporarily confused me.  I was obviously not ready to handle whatever it was.  Indeed, I did not even recognize the thing that caused me to wander off the path.  This represents our ignorance of the word, and the devil’s devices.  If we are not educating ourselves about God’s ways versus the devil’s, things seemingly out of nowhere may pop up that knocks us off the narrow road.

I found myself in a broad field.  Broad is the way to destruction, and many find it.  It was a cold, lifeless place.  The broad road is one of death, not life.  The people there seemed to be living in a vibrant, color filled place.  But that is the deception of Babylon.  Where I was driving was the reality, while the people living in Babylon were living in an illusion.  There was only the illusion of life, but in reality it was the place of lifelessness.  Her yard was almost too green, too vibrant to be believed.  I seemed to perceive there was something unreal about what my senses were telling me.

The fact that the people in this place only wanted to speak of the highway, and refused to even acknowledge the narrow dirt path represents the people of the world all on the same broad road that leads to hell.  They will not even consider any other way.  Why would they even consider some narrow, difficult dirt road, when they have the highway to drive on?  They would not even let me speak about the dirt path, and instead their incessant jabbering caused a sort of fog of confusion to come over my mind, which was causing me to forget the fact that I did not want to find a highway, but my narrow dirt road!  This represents the fact that if you go to the earth dwellers for direction and advice, you will be filled with a fog of uncertainty, which will ultimately distract you and make you forget about the direction and road you are supposed to be on.

I was able to snap out of it at the end.  This represents the fact that Jesus is always searching for his lost sheep.  The good shepherd will not abandon you, just because you happened to take a wrong turn in life.  He will be there, and if you choose to stop listening to those who are on the broad road of destruction, you will suddenly hear his voice, and you will be given the strength to break away and turn around and head back in the direction you came from.

The fact that I woke up before I knew if I had made it back on the correct path represents the fact that once a believer steps off the narrow path, there is no guarantee that they will make it back.  While the good shepherd will continue to seek you, you have placed yourself in grave danger by your previous foolish choices not to make yourself ready to face all the dangers and deceits of the enemy.  Should he succeed in getting you off the path, there is never a guarantee that you will find your way back.

Solitary Man