Hedges and highways

Here we see two approaches to life symbolised by a hedge of thorns and a cleared highway. The first is the life of a lazy man, who exaggerates real problems and imagines unreal ones, and so finds his progress barred at every point. In contrast, the second is the upright man, who discerns, delights in, and does what is right, in dependence on the Lord God. The contrast holds true in the matter of gracious salvation, Christian service, and sanctified success in the things of this world.