"See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me," writes Malachi. This
passage brings three popular songs to mind. Back in the '60s there was a top-ten hit titled,
"Expressway to Your Heart." It started with car horns honking. The Soul Survivors sang
it. God's goal is to build an "expressway to our hearts." Everything in the Bible, 1,000
pages in all, thousands of years of sacred history, is about God preparing a path, "the way
of the Lord," to come to us. For millennia, God had been knocking down mountains and