Oct.10 – “Looking out for #2???”

October 10, 2009

Some of you are drivers, or at least learning to drive.  As you learn to drive in Bellingham, you will find that as you cruise down the Guide Meridian that people are always wanting and needing to enter traffic.  This causes issues at times.  What I mean is; when you are trying to make a right turn coming out of Costco, you often need a little help.  During busy times, it often takes someone stopping and letting you actually pull out and get into traffic.  Yet, so often, people are just flying down the Guide, heading into Bellingham, trying to get to the mall, or wherever, and the last thing they think of doing is letting a perfect stranger get in front of them in line.

Self preservation is a strong instinct.  So strong we almost always assume it, and never have to feed it.  So, whenever we actually come to the point of thinking about other peoples interests, we are a bit lost.  Phil.2:1-4 says that we are as Christ Followers to specifically look for the interests of others instead of just our own.  It’s just one way that we can follow Christ rather than ourselves or any other person.

Read it….its hard!  Harder yet to do.  But maybe today, look for someone on your road that you can let into traffic.  You’ll still get where you need to be – and you’ll get there looking more like Christ!

CORAM DEO

ROB