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A MESSAGE FROM PASTOR CRAIG
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The following is a true story: During the 1990’s, I was working for a moderate size “Savings and Loan” financial institution in Oklahoma City known as Continental Federal. I worked as a Teller for the bank. On one particular day we were awaiting the arrival of a new employee who was scheduled to begin work. At the appointed time of the new employee’s arrival, they did not arrive. We began to think that maybe they had changed their mind about employment with the bank and as we continued to not receive any word that this was more and more the situation. Around 2pm that afternoon we finally received a phone call at the bank explaining what had happened to our employee. The call came from the husband explaining that his wife would not be coming in this day because he had just received a call from her that she was now in Dallas Texas. She was not going to be at work that day because she was not currently in Oklahoma City but in Dallas, Texas over 200 miles away. How she had come to this predicament is the rest of the story. Early that morning the husband had given detailed driving instructions to his wife as to how to arrive at her new work location. As with any instructions, it included the roads and turns that she would have to make on the way. One turn was transferring from one interstate to another one. During the trip the wife followed all of the instructions except one; she missed the turn that would have taken her on a different interstate. Because she had missed this one turn, it caused her whole trip to be affected. When she had not seen the turn, she kept traveling on the road she currently was on, all the way to Dallas 200 miles later. In the bible Christians find directions and turns for living. Advice on how we should behave with others and even ourselves and most of us have found that if we try to follow these rules and commandment that we can have a good life. However, sometimes we divert from these instructions and find that we are no longer on the path that we once were traveling on. We become lost and in need of direction. When the employee made it to work on time the next day, we could not help ourselves but to ask her why she had not stopped along the road to ask for directions. Her response was very intriguing. On one hand she had convinced herself that the correct turn was only a few more miles down the road and she would soon be back on track. Second, the further and further she moved away the more and more scared she became. She no longer wanted to ask anyone because she was embarrassed and frightened. We can respond in the same manner, the further and further we move away, the more harder and entrenched we can become. We become embarrassed to admit to others, but especially ourselves, that we have lost our way. We are also scared to ask for help and this can extend to God. The more distance we go, the more we feel unable to return. We find that the truth is that God is never far and easy to return to. We should never be afraid to ask God for the direction we need to get back on the correct route we need to be on. One take away for this story is that we need not respond to our miss-directions, we need to be open to God’s word and God’s instruction. God can lead us back on the right path even if we are 200 miles off course. |
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