Travel your Christian walk

A lot of things can come out of snow storms. This summer God showed me this amazing thing about traffic. Well, today it came back into mind.

I was driving to Target to pick up some items and then I was headed off to work after that. It had been snowing through the night and still was this morning when I ventured to leave the house. We had about 3 inches. I figured the roads ahead of me would be pretty decent, considering it was about 9:30 am already, and figured the plows would have been out for a while now. Figured I wouldn't have much of problems.

I drive nothing by side street roads, well because where we live doesn't require me to jump onto any major roads to and from work or to the stores for that matter. Which, I really like.

As I was feeling VERY confident in my driving, thinking, this is just fine. I went around a SLIGHT corner, wasn't a big turn and the back of my car started to swerve. I was like, "really?! You've got to be kidding me!" I slowed down from there on out, which, at the time I was only going 25 mph. Yeah! I thought, how is that possible, my car is just that horrible isn't it!

Well, then it came to me. No matter what kind of car you have or what shape your car is in...you never know what it is going to do. Just like ourselves...I might LOOK like I have everything together and that everything is fine in my life...but one little turn and I could be slipping away (from God). Or I might be really rough looking and so on, but I might actually have strengths, when no one would tell I do because of how I appear in many ways.

So many things hit me today, which is just awesome, but it's so hard to keep up with these thoughts God is giving me and I can't seem type it all fast enough. ah! I love that!

So then...God also showed me that I might be going down a path or a road that I think I have everything ahead of me handled JUST fine! And all of a sudden, I slip, and I think, "what?". I was just thinking I was headed to the store fine and this was no problem to drive in just a few inches. I can totally apply this to my life. A lot of times I'm going through this life of mine thinking I have the road ahead of me all figured out and it will be smooth sailing from here! yah...but what happens? You know, God throws you for a slide! Something will happen in my life or your life that will cause us to slide and loose our grip a bit.

But it's how we deal with this that really can build our character! Either I could have completely slammed on the breaks, freaked out and probably would have slide into a pole on the side of the street for all I know. But I didn't. Why? Because I realized at that moment that it's just a minor slip and that I can regain control again by letting my foot off the gas and letting it ride out.

In life, I can either freak out about a situation and think I NEED to take control of this situation!! Or I can breathe, slow down and LET GOD take control of the situation!


Whew! Wait, there is more...

When something like that happens and you make it through that situations, no matter how you handled that one at that time...you then start to travel differently, don't you? Well, at least I do! I then realize, wow, okay, this isn't as easy as I thought and I began to slow it down and just take the first few blocks at a time until I felt more comfortable.

Here is the analogy...

After a situation happens (or maybe before too) in my/your life I tend to look at things a little differently and really rely on God fully. That is how He wants us to always be! Why does a situation have to happen before we realize this? Well, I honestly, I think, because He wants us to be focused on Him all the time and "test?" us. I've always wondered if "test" is a right way to put things. He wants to see how sure footed we are in our Faith. Do we turn to scriptures, do we talk with Him about things? Or do we just keep driving down the road one stop light after another thinking we got it all under control and that even though I just slipped back there, I still can go along at my same speed...
But you see...HERE IS ANOTHER ONE...

We all travel at different speeds as well! Winter driving tends to be a stressful thing for me. I don't mind driving in it. It's driving with others around me, that I just don't trust! Why? Well, because I know speed and what pace I am able to do. I don't go faster than what I don't think I can handle. I slow down if I feel nervous. But then there are those other vehicles on the road, that think that just because they have the 4x4 and blah blah blah...that they can plow through the snow at the speed that is posted (no matter the weather) and just zip right on by. What does that do to me? It causes me to slow down, FREAK out a bit, and get a blast of snow blown at my windshield, leaving me lost in the snow dust, or sometimes in the ditch!

In our Christian walk, we all travel at different speeds as well. Some may be traveling right along just cruising on by knowing what God is telling them and He is taking them places and just everything seems to be lined up. They are on fire with God, know the scriptures, are confident in who they are with their relationship with the Lord. Others might be traveling a little slower, being cautious as to what God is showing them and really trying to be aware for what is around them. They might be a new Christian, and are just learning scriptures or they aren't even fully knowledgeable with the Bible completely. Then there are even non-Christians in our lives, that FLY by us and do this and that and get in to that, go here go there without a question in their mind of what they are doing may be wrong or right. Just that whatever they are doing is FOR THEM and they don't care what that what they are doing is doing to other people. They are the ones that make us slip of course and make us slow down. We are to be careful of these people because they can hinder our walk with God by the things they do in their lives.

Honestly, where am I at? Just like the slow, cautious driver that I am in the winter, I believe I am that in my Christian walk. I don't know scripture verse by memory, I don't know all the stories in the Bible very well. I am attentive to what God shows me and tells me and I talk to Him daily so that I do stay on the road. I take one mile at a time, one day at a time and I trust in Him that He will guide me in that. I also know that God is showing me that I need more confidence in my life as well. That I seek out the approval of man, when ultimately God is the only one that I should be concerned about for my life. He is showing me daily that I need to TRUST more in him that even when the road seems traitorous ahead, I need to rely on Him that He will take me through it and not get nervous by it.


I've probably just jumped from one thing to the next...I tend to do that.

O Lord Jesus, you've revealed so much to me today, and in just one little thing that so much could come out of it for me. I am amazed and in awe of you that you have given me these things to think about and rest on in You. I pray that these things you've given me that I will dwell on them and that you continually guide me on this road ahead of me. I trust in You that you know the plan of my life and that even when I feel I have it figured out, that You will show me yet again that it isn't up to me, but Your plan instead. And that whatever that plan maybe at that time in my life, that I would be at peace with it. I always want you Lord Jesus at my side! I wouldn't want it any other way!