ICY ROADS

It may have surprised some people, but Wednesday was a “snow day” without a lot of snow. I don’t know about the other schools, but I heard that two buses from Kingston went into the ditch on Tuesday morning. While the main roads weren’t too bad, I’m sure the back roads were pretty icy.

That got me thinking … our lives are often like that. When we are cruising along on the main roads—times when things are going as planned and, for the most part, we know the course—it’s fairly easy to keep plugging and chugging along. However, it’s the back roads that are challenging and tricky. These are the times when things don’t go as planned—when people say something that hurts you, when your plans change (or get changed for you), and times of uncertainty. Just like many dirt roads, these times are riddled with potholes and other obstacles. While the main road seemed fine, these times can be like icy back roads. They require more diligence. You have to slow down and pay careful attention to both the path and how you’re navigating it. If you don’t you could easily find yourself in the ditch, or worse. Without intending to, you could find yourself doing damage to yourself or to others.

Let’s face it, it doesn’t take much to get us off track, so let’s be careful in both the good times and the rough times! Consider the instruction in Proverbs 4:23-27:

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, stay on the straight and narrow way, and, whether literal or figurative, watch out for icy roads.

In His grip,
Pastor Decker