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Where Does Your Road Lead?
The sticker said "YOU'RE IN THE WRONG LANE". It was on the driver side of a vehicle at the convenience store this morning. I wanted a picture, but the lady was sitting in it, so I tried to replicate it.
More than likely, this sticker was intended to mean if a vehicle is passing you and you are able to read it, then you need to remember that the law says slower vehicles use the right-hand lane. Obviously, there are other ways to interpret it also, one of them being that this driver lives their life in the fast lane.
There are some things in our culture that stand out. A vast majority of people in our culture, particularly the younger ones, try to live in the fast lane. People try to figure out the meaning for their life and why they exist while they consume most if not all of their time with earthly pursuits. They honestly ask the right questions sometimes in their pursuit of happiness, but often reject the answers. If we look around us, we don't have to look far to see what is really going on. There are so many earthly concerns, problems, and situations, and most people are looking for earthly solutions.
If we want the answers to where we can find true happiness and what our purpose is, the true answers come from the one who put us here, they highlight His purpose for us, and they show what brings real joy and happiness. As long as we ignore what the potter had in mind for the clay, we will continue to be a coffee cup instead of a flower vase.
In Ecclesiastes 2, King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived searched for the answers to his own questions. He was rich, he was a king, he had tried almost any and everything and he lacked nothing of an earthly nature, yet like so many of us, he realized something was still missing.
There is a spot within each of us that needs to be filled with everything God. If that spot is filled with anything else, like most of the world tries to do, then we are never really satisfied. Some people believe they can just empty that spot of God, and leave it void, but it fills with something else as soon as God is pushed out, and often it is something like loneliness, anxiety or depression that fills it. We may chase money, a career or some other endeavor. But we learn that nothing, not even family and friends can take the place of God.
David often said it right, “As a deer pants for streams of water so my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirst for God, for the living God.” (Psalms 42:1) “My soul thirst for You God….in a dry and weary land where there is no water.” (Psalms 63:1) Jesus speaking to the Father said, “Now this is life that they may KNOW You, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." (John 17:3). John said, (John 1:1) ”In Him was life and that life was the light of men.”
Today, is your life less than you desire? Is it God that's missing? Are you in the fast lane, where you need to slow down and make time and room for Him?
