This week I experienced what many of us can identify with. I was headed to work early and stopped at a local drive through to pick up a chicken biscuit and a drink. I made sure that the attendant knew what I wanted and proceeded on to the pick up window. Every thing going well I get to the window (with it raining buckets full outside) and get my drink and biscuit. Off I go!!!
I immediately get on the road and made the tragic mistake of pulling out and getting onto the interstate BEFORE checking my bag. Guess What??? Yep, you got it.....wrong biscuit! A stinking Bacon/Egg/Cheese instead of Pure protein...aka ...chicken. No big deal you cry but what you do not know is after a 1.5 hour morning workout I needed protein not fluff!!!
Now picture this, I am already on the interstate with it raining buckets full with full traffic as I head toward the big city and I have a dilemma. Go down an exit at 8am and try turning around to go back and get this straight (15 minutes at least ) or go on and eat the fluff. Needless to say I surrendered and ate the fluff. It might have lasted till 9:30 but it was better than nothing. That is what I get for grabbing for fast food without careful inspection...... MMMMM another one of HIS lessons is coming......
Isn't this like alot of us? We grab life on the go rarely inspecting what we are ingesting. Instead of good protein we get fluff. Then when it doesn't last or satisfy us we try to fill ourselves with something else. I have dedicated my life to encouraging people to not settle for 2nd best in life. As I look around it seems as though many have. Many have settled for far less than they could have in life if only they would get off the fast food of this world.
The bible says "there is a way that seems right to a man,(or woman by the way) but the end of it is the way a death." Simply, this means we may believe it to be dead right but it will turn out dead wrong. Sadly it is not usually as simple as getting the wrong biscuit. I remember a young teenager I counseled many years ago. I encouraged her to be careful of her relationships with the guys, to guard her heart and body. She had come from a broken home and had lots of anger to go around. She met MR Right....or so she thought.....Once she made her decision and got out on the "Interstate" of her life it was too late to go back! She did not get what she thought she had ordered.
I will never forget when she came to see me again several years later, with a child in tow, she told me how she wished she could go back and do it again, but this time make sure she was more careful to inspect her order. The scars of her poor decisions were evident on this struggling single mom! She couldn't go back!
How about you??? Tired of Fast Food?? Have you blown it? Failed miserably? Turned over so many leaves your yard is clean? Tired of the fluff yet? You will get there! I did! It took me many years to give in and give it up. There are no pots of gold at the end of Satan's rainbows, only manure. And I have spent my share of time there. Done with that, Praise God! I will simply say to you, God knows, God cares and so do I.
Solomon, the richest and wisest man to ever live said this..."This is the end of the matter; all hath been heard: fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man." Life is not life until we engage the giver of life. The True and Living God. Anything else is simply, sadly fast food! Don't settle for anything else than real life, abundant life found only in a personal relationship with God, through His Son Jesus Christ! Matthew 11:28-30
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