I had a dream early this morning and decided to interrupt our study of 1 Peter, chapter 1, to share it with you:<\/p>\n
Had an interesting dream just before I woke up this morning. I was walking along a highway at a comfortable pace, and then saw the flow of traffic (at night) thick, fast, and loud, with cars zipping by, recognizable only by the streaks of light and sound they created.<\/p>\n
Then I heard a voice say to me as I was about to step in to join the flow, “Don’t let yourself be destroyed by other people’s forward progress.”<\/p>\n
That seems so backward in today’s society and even in the church world. But it rang true to me.<\/p>\n
God’s not a frenetic God. He’s not nervously twitching to keep up with anyone. Nor is He a frenetic taskmaster. He doesn’t “clock” us\u00a0 with His stopwatch or berate us to keep up with the pack. No; He’s the Shepherd who walks ahead of the flock, not a driver who pushes the herd from behind with whips, sharp prods, and snapping dogs.<\/p>\n
He’s the God who not only created the cheetah, but He’s also the God who created the turtle. I’ve never observed a turtle (or a dachshund or an elephant or any other member of the animal kingdom) berate itself because it can’t zip around the forest at 70 mph. No; the turtle is content to stroll at its own pace, filling its part in the Big Picture–the part it was uniquely created to fill.<\/p>\n
May we have such wisdom and press on–at the unique pace God’s set for each one of us–and not let ourselves be destroyed by anyone else’s forward progress.<\/p>\n
Dorothy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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