How many times have you wished that God would just let you
know what’s going to happen in your life? Particularly when you have decisions
to make or when something unexpected happens. I know I have! I really cannot
count how many times I have wished that God would just give me the “heads-up”
on what to expect! I mean really, couldn’t he just send me an sms or an
e-mail? In fact, this was my only real
gripe with God, after all, He is omnipotent, knows our beginning and our end,
so surely…!
There is a particularly nasty bend that I have to take on my
normal route home. The start of the bend is marked by a cross where someone was
killed, and on the other side of the road, about six hundred metres on, there
are another two crosses marking where two other people lost their lives. When I
take this bend I find myself slowing down tremendously and hugging the inside
lane, often driving into the yellow line, all the while my heart seems to be in
my mouth. However, one night I was
coming home on the same road, around the same bend, when I realized that I was
travelling in the fast lane, and not worrying at all about slowing down or
being afraid! It was then that I realized that I always drove that bend more
confidently at night and I also realized that it was because I couldn’t see the
whole dangerous bend, just the portion that was lit by my headlights.
And that is exactly what God does! He lets us see only what
we can deal with. The bend was no more
or less dangerous at night, I just wasn’t afraid because my vision was limited
and I realized that if God was to show us everything that was around the corner
in our lives, most of us would be too afraid to go there!
