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Stop!
No U turns!
Intersection Ahead!
Speed Limit 35!
Dangerous turns!
Construction Ahead!
Private Property!
No Soliciting!
Beware of Dog!
How many signs do you see every day? How many of those do you actually take note of? When I ride in a vehicle on a long trip, I always look at road signs. If there are none around, I look at milemarkers. 878… 129… 643… Then when you get into the suburban areas of town with lots of churchs, then the church signs are fun to read. “God allows U turns” was the most recent if I remember correctly. But how many signs actually come in the strangest time of your life? Like your not sure if you should keep something going, and then…
WHAM
It hits you like a foul ball. You never saw it coming, but it came and you just had to obey. Some things in life seem like that to me. I was feeling down one day, and I saw a sign that said, “Cheer up, you’ve got Budlight” or something of the such that makes no sense. Just seeing the two first words ‘cheer up’ are the best thing for me when theres nobody around except anoying siblings and very mad parents.
Looking for signs can be taken in another way too. Sometimes people just aren’t aware of the signs and end up.. well in a wreck. When you’ve been sinning for so long and you get too comfortable with it, or even if you just told a little white lie,
WHAM! It comes at you. You just have to be open for it. Heck, I’m still trying to.
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What triggered my memory about this post was the fact for Raft Trip 2007, each body building team was broken down into road signs… Mine was Men At Work… others had mudslide, slippery when wet, Speed limit 120, and such others…
About the never saw it coming… I totally agree…As humans we have the tendancy to rush through life as if it were a race wanting to go as fast as possible, taking no time to enjoy the time were given. Sometimes I have the urge to just stop what I was doing and go sit on the ground in a woods and think and pray… unfortunately that does not get to happen as much as it should…for one… I don’t have a nearby woods and second off I fill that time with something else.
Every morning during the week of raft trip, I would get up an hour earlier than most other people and sit on the hill and have devotions… mano y mano with God..(I just realized in spanish that means hand and hand with God…interesting never really thought aobut that) It was unbelievable and such a cool experience! I wish I would dedicate time like that to God’s Word here in Fort Wayne…
An interesting verse I was given during raft trip as follows:
‘Be still before the lord and wiat patiently for him’ Pslam 37:7
Have you ever read something from Psalms and seen the ‘Selah’ after it? I learned (during raft trip. If you haven’t noticed I gain a LOT by going, I highly reccomend it, it will definetly be worth it.) that this means Stop and Listen when translated into English from Hebrew. (for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selah) So this is telling you to STOP completely and focus and soak up what this is saying.
To add to your cheer up… An AWESOME verse I’ve found and have wrestled with:
‘Wake up, Wake up, Jerusalem! Become strong. Be beautiful again, holy city of Jerusalem. The people who do not worship GOD and who are not pure will not enter you again. Jerusalem, you were once a prisoner, now shake off the dust and stand up. now free yourself from the chains around your neck.’ Isaiah 52:1-2
When reading this I relplace Jerusalem with myself. This is one of the few times it can work and makes sense. When we are cast down and depressed we are given the chance to shake off the chains, stand up, and become strong.
Glad I could trigger such thoughts Orli. I don’t care if people post something as long as Orli has here, I just want to hear people’s opinions on things. As small as One line or as big or bigger than the topic I posted. I try to leave my topics open for thoughts.
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