Waiting for the Tow Truck.

Do we truly understand ourselves or is that the thing God spends eternity exposing to us?

We think we know what we are all about but as we age our physical vision fades and practical vision becomes more clear.

That idea grabbed me by the back of the neck this morning and is still shaking my foundation.

Oswald Chambers says it like this: “We have to get rid of the idea that we understand ourselves: it is the last conceit to go. The only One Who understands us is God.”

I don’t know if it’s cancer or middle age or just my place in life right now but all that I thought I knew about myself is residue at the bottom of a blender.

This is not a bad thing, it’s not a comfortable thing but somewhere in the depths of my spirit I know it’s a God thing.

Life has a way of creating traffic jams in our lives. We feel like we are stuck on a freeway and all we want to do is take the first exit but often times those exits eventually lead us right back to the same highway and into the same traffic jam.

I think I need to put on my turn signal, pull the car over and just sit on the side of the road until His tow truck shows up. (smile)

2 Comments

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  Greg Ewert December 29, 2011 at 11:10 am

  Okay.. So I have tried pulling over and waiting for the tow truck. When the Holy Spirit gets there and finds the vehicle in good condition you might get towed to a place you might not like. I was taken to a race track where I thought I had been promoted at first… But after going round and round for a few years, and seeing the same scenery over and over, it didn’t matter how many races I was winning, or battles I was won. I realized God had taken me to a controlled area where he could work on me and my faith before turning me loose in the general public.

  Its kind of like a movie I seen years ago with Bill Murry. He was a monk in the move. Looking down from the safe monastery on the hill, another monk said… why would you leave this safe place to go into town? His answer stuck with me all these years…

  “Its easy being a monk up here on this mountain, the true test of everything I have learned is out there” … or something really close to that .

  We all know that the quickest way to get some place is a straight line. I think that is why God stays off the freeway and works the back roads.
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  Viki Berry December 29, 2011 at 10:06 pm

  Thanks for the reminder and the clear message.