… human beings never cease to amaze me! How a person will miss a turning, end up on the wrong road, know very early on that this does not lead to his destination, but yet continue on it for 30 years! Some stay on it forever and just continue a journey that leads to only ‘God knows where’. At this point, they have totally lost the plot, with no destination in mind any longer, the journey progresses on the basis of basic survive, continue driving to the next convenience, ease self, eat, sleep and just repeat till death, no aim, no goal, no aspirations just basic survival. And all these started with an innocent wrong move and somehow there is no will to turn back and get back on track. Most people started with a goal, a destination in mind. They had a dream!
The sat nav is screaming at us. ‘Do a U turn where possible!’ But somehow the thought of finding an appropriate place to swerve the car round is too much effort for most people. Continuing on the slow and steady forward drive to nowhere has a deadly appeal. What a life! The longer and further away we are from where we verved off, the harder it it is to turn back. Physically it is not that hard. Psychologically it is torture, the time on the long road back is the hardest before we eventually get on to be on the right road. How do we explain going back to start a first degree when we are 45 years old, we could have graduated at 21? How do we explain getting out of a 30 year old wrong marriage? How do we close shop to a 37 years business or career that was never meant to be? How do we get our 129kg body back to the ideal 75 kg body weight? How do we drop the drugs, alcohol or whatever that has been our companion for the last 25 years? How do we stop the porn that has become our addiction since teenage? How do we refine our thoughts, guard our mind, hold ourselves to superior thoughts when we have indulge in all unedifying and depressive thoughts for so long? How do we take that step back to wholeness and wellness? How do we get away from the wrong turn? How?In all honesty, it is much easier to continue down the slippery slope we have found ourselves. We reason why or how do we put in the effort to turn back. After some time, the effervescent of our goals have evaporated, we can’t find the ‘why’ to do better, live better , think better. We are despondent and disillusioned and all these started with a tiny little innocent wrong turn!
What do we do? Do we continue to sin that grace might abound or do we stop ‘sinning’? Do we continue down the road we are on? A man once told me, he said ‘I can’t live with my wife yet I am living with her!’ Another person told me ‘I can’t stand my chosen career but that is what my parents wanted me to do’ 30 years down the line I am still here, even though my parents are gone now. I have heard it all. I left school started a full time ministry ….
Please do the U turn!
Beautiful Ivory 