U-Turn


Ever feel like you’re life is making a very slow, wide U-turn?  It is that time in life when you understand that you are on the wrong trajectory and you need to change something but change sounds sooo painful. Even knowing that in your greatest struggles you achieve the greatest growth, does not always ease the pain.  I’ve concluded it is a matter of where you place your focus.  Where there is change, there is tunnel vision and all we see is the pain. If we would only back away and get the view of the big picture, we could turn happily and quickly from our old ways.

 To repent is to turn around.  It is to turn and go the opposite direction because the current path will only lead to troubles. (I know I have been on this theme for a couple posts)  If only God lined the path with sweet treats and flashing neon signs to make it easier.  But God does not coerce us.  He simply waits for us to love him (He already loves us) he doesn’t need to sell himself.  So, why do we attempt to get him to sell his plan to us?  Maybe it is because Satan is such a cunning salesman; we think God will use the same tactics.  Satan tricks us into playing his rigged carnival game with flashiness and lies; we walk away with some cheap prize that falls apart before we even get home.  God wants to trade us, our cheap prizes (sin) for the best prizes of all (forgiveness and eternal life).  He does not pressure us or try to sell us on the idea; he waits for us to discover his perfect love, which also happens to be in plain sight.  Open the eyes and really see what he has done.  The flashing lights will fade in favor of the peace that passes all understanding.

 
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  1. UnknownSeptember 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM

    Super Post/Blog I Like IT!

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  2. harleySeptember 13, 2012 at 10:49 AM

    I did in fact make a wide U-turn this morning to get to a Pick n Save on Rapids Drive and I did in fact buy a bag of sweet treats (mini size snickers) and once again I feel blessed by Jody's blog. Friends we are on the right track; all we need to do is hang in there and persevere and in due season we shall reap God's reward for our humble self-sacrificing life.

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