I have many pet peeves. One of those pet peeves is how some
folks behave in traffic….particularly the folks who think where they have to go
is way more important than where I have to go.
A few days a week on my way to/from one of the places I
work, I go through a construction zone. This zone has been in place at least
all summer. There are signs up quite a ways before you even get close to the
construction zone. This is normally a three-lane expressway that is cut down to
one lane. If you have a job that takes you into/out of the city, then you take
this road, and you KNOW about this construction zone.
Yet some folks speed past all the rest of us who have
dutifully pulled over into the one lane that will remain open, and these folks
drive up as close as they can to the actual construction site, and then expect
those of us who have been obediently and patiently waiting to let them in.
Huh-uh, bud. NOT. A. CHANCE.
This truly irritates me. Why should I let them in? How is
their life so much more important than mine? Where do they have to go that is
more important than where I have to go?
They don’t deserve to cut in. They don’t deserve…..GRACE.
God convicted me of this. “Have some grace, Beth. I offer it
to you…abundantly.”
Ouch.
What is GRACE? It’s
getting something (good) we don’t deserve. And God gives me plenty of that.
So…..I’m not saying that the next time I’m in that long
construction zone line waiting my turn and someone starts pulling over into my
lane at the last moment trying to get in that I will let them in. I want to try
it, though, at least once. Then maybe more.
After all, God never withholds His grace from me….THANK GOD!
“From the fullness of his grace we have all received one
blessing after another.” John 1:16 NIV
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