STOP ....you stop right where you are. You want to live your life how you want....won't let go of things that are detrimental and contrary to God's purpose and will. So you STOP, unwilling to move ahead.
U TURN - you head in the right direction....but something keeps turning you around ...back to where you started. Old habits, old sins, Satan himself whispering lies that keep you from staying in the right direction.
YEILD....you move ahead cautiously....not sure if you should step forward or not. You get nowhere fast.
NO TURN ON RED: God gives us clear warnings of how to live our lives and how NOT to live our lives and yet we turn and go down that path anyway.
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Matthew 7:13-14
Those are OUR signs...
GOD gives us clear ones. We need to follow His for our journey to be in the right direction and His are pretty simple to understand....
LOVE....the LORD you God with all your heart soul mind and strength
LOVE ...your neighbor as yourself
LOVE one another
The greatest of these is LOVE
One sign covers all our directions!
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:34-40
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. John 14:2
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13
Sometimes we need to pull off to the rest area....but it is not a detour or a stop...it is just a rest, so that we can regroup and focus on the creator of our "road map".
I find it interesting NY state has"Text Stop" areas now....so we can safely pause our travels and communicate, because things are so urgent it can't wait until we get there?! (A bit of sarcasm there)
But in our spiritual walk things may be just that urgent and we don't want to continue in the direction we are headed without time with God! Pull off and communicate with God... before you go any further in the destructive direction you might be headed. Figure out the direction He wants you to go and then recalculate your route.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. Matthew 16:24
His signs are usually very clear IF you want to see them. And sometimes His trip will include rough road, stormy weather, even fog and poor visibility. BUT if we spend time with Him, study His "Road Map" (the bible) and communicate in prayer we will see His "road signs" clearly and have confidence, faith we are headed in the right direction!
If we LOVE God with all our being we will desire His direction.
If we LOVE all those around us before ourselves we will be serving God in our best capacity.
and we will be "cruisin'!'
Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me. John 12:26
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. John 10:27
He speaks to each of us...."COME FOLLOW ME."
I pray you are looking for His "road signs" today!
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8:12
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