The most interesting faith moment came to me today while driving to pick up my daughter from school. You see, I was driving along on a four-lane section of a small town and when I glanced up there was a very large man walking straight down my lane towards me! I couldn’t believe my eyes for a moment. Cars were all around and here was a man taking what seemed like a stroll right down the inside lane. My lane! As I slowed down on my approach toward the man he didn’t even look over his shoulder when he casually moved into the center turning lane.
At first I was appalled by the audacity the man had as if he was more important and all these huge cars and trucks should just clear the way for him. You see, around the area that I live people constantly stand in the middle of the road or loiter on the sides of the roads. Usually it is on the side roads that they do this. The man walking straight for me while I was driving made me stop and think that it must take some kind of blind faith to just casually stroll down the road the way he was doing today. I could imagine that in his mind was the lack of thought that someone might hit him or that he could be hurt. When I remembered all of the others that stand in the road I suspected they also had some kind of blind faith in drivers that I just cannot comprehend.
And then it struck me…. Wow! What faith! If I could only have that type of faith when walking through life! Jesus is always with me, this I have no doubt, but to walk among the obstacles of life in the same manner that that man could walk among the cars and trucks today, now that would be truly awesome! To not look over my shoulder when I should enter the turning lane but just simply take that step forward on nothing but faith that God will protect me.
Now don’t get me wrong, I do think that the man today was acting foolishly and was in serious risk of getting hit, but just try to think of that kind of faith applied to our walk with Christ. We could all learn a valuable lesson in the act of a foolish mans stroll if we just think about it in terms of faith. Do you have that kind of faith? I pray that my faith will continue to grow so that I can walk with Christ through life just like the man walking down the four-lane was today. No thoughts of worry, no thoughts of fear, but just putting one foot in front of the other no matter what obstacles lie before me because I know Christ is with me and will see me through life’s traffic jams.
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In His Service,
The Faithful Geek
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!