It's the road that leads to renewal, in which the barren wilderness springs to life and bloom like poppies in the high desert. It is the road that reverses the destruction of our sin, the road that leads to a new creation. Water flows like rivers across the burning sand and forms pools in the desert. The wasteland becomes a wetland. Grass and reeds and papyrus grow, where once only scavengers hunted.
Death gives way to life, resurrection from the dead.
When John doubted, that's the message Jesus told him. Stay on the road. Don't detour in doubt. The new creation had come with the coming of Jesus. And with His coming, came a foretaste of the feast to come, a glimpse of the glory that we will see fully on the Last Day.