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That is so true! Blind faith and trust. But we don't have the faith and trust to give it to God and take it back as if we can do better.
From: Celebok <celebok@...>
Sent: Tuesday, 26 February, 2008 10:17
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Subject: [pugetsoundchristiansingles] The Construction Worker
From: Celebok <celebok@...>
Sent: Tuesday, 26 February, 2008 10:17
To: celeboknorthwest@yahoogroups.com; pugetsoundchristiansingles@yahoogroups.com; savedsinglesgetaway@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [pugetsoundchristiansingles] The Construction Worker
On Sunday morning, as I was on my way to church and driving out of my neighborhood, I came to the intersection where I was about to turn right onto Hwy 202, a somewhat busy street, though usually not too bad on Sunday mornings. At that time, however, the traffic light was out, and a maintenance crew was working on it. Not only that, but there were a lot of large pieces of construction equipment completely blocking my view to the left, so that I absolutely could not see if there was any traffic coming down the street from that direction. As I had my right turn signal on and was slowly inching my way forward, one construction worker who was monitoring the traffic gave me a hand signal to go ahead with my right turn. So I did.
As I was driving down Hwy 202, I thought to myself, "I just trusted my life to that construction worker that I don't even know!" I had turned onto that street, based on what I assumed that guy was seeing that I couldn't see, and the assumption that his goal was to protect my well-being. And those assumptions were simply based on the fact that he was standing next to the construction equipment and wearing an orange vest! If any of those assumptions had been wrong, I could've easily been dead! So that made me think, I'm willing to put my faith in a stranger wearing an orange vest, and yet, how many times do we as Christians not demonstrate the same kind of faith in God, who we know is all-knowing and always has our best interests in mind, when God tells us to do something, but we hesitate, because we can't see what's around the corner?
I didn't have an immediate life-application for this lesson, but I thought it was a pretty cool analogy.
As I was driving down Hwy 202, I thought to myself, "I just trusted my life to that construction worker that I don't even know!" I had turned onto that street, based on what I assumed that guy was seeing that I couldn't see, and the assumption that his goal was to protect my well-being. And those assumptions were simply based on the fact that he was standing next to the construction equipment and wearing an orange vest! If any of those assumptions had been wrong, I could've easily been dead! So that made me think, I'm willing to put my faith in a stranger wearing an orange vest, and yet, how many times do we as Christians not demonstrate the same kind of faith in God, who we know is all-knowing and always has our best interests in mind, when God tells us to do something, but we hesitate, because we can't see what's around the corner?
I didn't have an immediate life-application for this lesson, but I thought it was a pretty cool analogy.
--Wayne
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