Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Psalm 25:4
I spoke with my insurance agent about renewing my policy. As she clicked away on the keyboard at her end I heard her frustrated sigh. “Sorry, this computer keeps wanting to take me where I don’t want to go.”
I’ve been there. Click and a screen appears that I didn’t expect, or a pop that tells me a new password is required (and I have to rack my brain to recall it), or requesting the answer to a security question. Or my favorite, READ ERROR 404. Argh.
After a few more huffs into my receiver, she acted surprised. “Oh, here we are. It got me to the screen I needed. I didn’t think about going this route.”
courtesy of Facebook posting – no artist noted.
It made me think though how often these digital incidences raise my blood pressure…
Then God whispered into my heart,”How often do you react the same way when I detour your plans?”
Lately, God has been yanking me out of several comfort zones, and I haven’t wanted to go!
But the truth is, rerouting is a part of life. Abram was called to leave his homeland. The Hebrews had to relocate to Egypt during a famine , as did Joseph with Mary and the baby Jesus. Jesus rerouted his followers through Samaria, a land where no good Jew would venture back then. God rerouted Paul in his ministry when he wanted to go to Asia.
Today, believers are often rerouted as well. We are constantly in the battle to die to self and live for others. To go against the grain of self-centered secularism and show hospitality,
sacrificial love and forgiveness.
Where has God rerouted you, perhaps dragged you against your will? How did it turn out? Probably pretty well, despite the doubts, hardships, and stumbles. Sometimes He has to takes us where we never thought we’d go so He can teach us, comfort us, correct us, or grow us.
At times our faith walk can be a drag…in a good way.
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