On my daily commute to work, there’s a merge onto the interstate, that can sometimes be harrowing. Thankfully, it’s a fairly long view looking back as you prepare to enter the motorway.
One early morning last week I came to the familiar junction and saw no approaching headlights. Yet, as I accelerated onto the highway, I was surprised to see the blind spot detection system light up on my driver’s side mirror. “It must be malfunctioning,” I said to myself, continuing to merge.
A blaring air horn shook me to my senses. I looked in the rearview and saw a huge garbage truck, so close to my back bumper I could almost smell it.
Heart racing, I pulled over to the shoulder and slowed down, as the big white truck passed me by with a final blast of his horn.
Frankly, I think the guy could have gotten over a lane or braked to let me merge. He was “trash talking” by laying on the horn. It must be a sanitation worker thing. However, I should have been more careful, and heeded that bright yellow blinking blind spot monitor.
The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
Proverbs 22:3 (NIV)
A recent devotional from Streams in the Desert tells of a godly woman who was asked the key to her consistent growth in the Lord. “Mind the checks,” she said. “Mind the checks.”
After the earthquake came a fireโฆAnd after the fire came a gentle whisper.
1 Kings 19:12 (NIV)
The reading goes on to explain that the “checks” are God’s “restraints and constraints” that come by His still, small voice.
Many true believers miss them all together.
Kind reader, can you relate? Like me, have you ever disregarded the Lord’s version of a blinking blind spot monitor? It’s all too easy to miss His gentle whisper, only to be almost side swiped by a gargantuan garbage truck. Today, and every day, may we heed God’s gentle whisper.
Thank you for reading. ๐โค๏ธ prayers and love.
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