3 John 1:11 Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good.
Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
Yesterday I drove to Columbus to have a lunch reunion with
friends from grammar school. I’ll share
more about the reunion at a later date. According to my GPS it was 99 miles to
my classmate’s home. It was an easy
drive with light traffic. The speed
limit was 70 most of the way and I felt comfortable driving at or a few miles
above that. Once and a while a car would come over into my lane and after a bit
when I’d check my speedometer I’d discover that I was driving 80 or 85 MPH. How
quickly and without even noticing it I had adjusted my speed to theirs. It made me consider that it’s also easy for
people to do that off the road. We tend
to imitate those with whom we associate.
If I was behind a speeder I had to work harder to stay at what I felt
was an acceptable speed, especially because my Volvo will go very fast with
little sign of effort. Sometimes we must
be around folk who don’t share our values.
We may work with them or they may be friends of friends who appear on
the social scene. We must make conscious
decisions to stay true to our values and not to go speeding down the wrong
path, one that could lead to destruction.
Open our eyes, Lord that we may see when we are going at a
pace that is dangerous for us. We ask
your blessing upon us this day. In Jesus’
name. Amen.
I hope to see everyone at Homecoming Sunday!
Paige
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