Well, here’s your sign laying in the road. I stopped, backed up, and moved the sign off of the pavement. It started me to thinking. Did someone hit this sign with their car because they didn’t see it? Maybe they were going too fast, or texting while driving, or so preoccupied with whatever was happening on their side of the windshield that they didn’t see what was on the other side of the windshield. Whoa!!!!! What if they had hit a child instead of just the sign? Would whatever reason they have for this collision be good enough to justify that they hit something or heaven forbid someone?
Signs, signs, everywhere signs (a 70’s rock song). But do we read the signs? Stop sign? only if there are other cars. Caution light?…..means hurry up before it turns red. Yield sign?…… not if I’m havin’ a bad day buddy. A slow- children at play sign? To someone it must mean plow into it and launch it from the shoulder of the road to the driving lane itself.
Too many of us live our lives the same way that we drive. We concentrate on just what’s inside the windshield. You know, me, myself, and I. We even ask God to give us a sign and help me and what happens? We plow right through it. Whoa!!!!!
Mark 8:11-12 The Voice 11 they were met by Pharisees—ready with their questions and tests—seeking some sign from heaven that His teaching was from God.
Jesus (sighing with disappointment): 12 Why does this generation ask for a sign before they will believe? ….
Why is Jesus disappointed? He knows that He has already given us many signs. He also has given us…… Himself. Yet, we try to do it without Him, focus on our inward selfish lives, preoccupied with me,myself, and more of me. Is it any wonder that we don’t see Him? He’s disappointed also because we plow right through chances and opportunities to “slow down” and just BE His children. (Do you ever play with God? After all you are His child. Just a thought.)
In your spiritual travels, that slow- children at play sign is there for you. You are the child that God is trying to protect……. from you yourself. While “driving” down this “road of life”, we can actually run over ourselves. We can be our own worst enemy. Focus on being God’s child, not on wanting more signs. He won’t be disappointed! Neither will you. See Ya! Dan Ainsworth wilderness preacher
I have been at times my worst enemy.