Crippled

When leaving church one afternoon, I stopped at the corner saying goodbye to my baby brothers and giving them instructions on how they were getting home. The light changed, but I didn't move until I was sure my brothers understood my instructions. When I turned around and began to cross the street, a jeep full of teenage boys sped just past the crosswalk and stopped really hard! I would understand why if they suffered whiplash the next day (but I prayed that wouldn't happen). They backed behind the cross walk laughing at their mistake. I chuckled too, shaking my head, and kept walking.

I got on my bus safely and thought nothing of the teenage boys recklessness. Yet, as I was nearing my stop, it hit me: if I had begun crossing the street when the light changed, I would have been right in front of that car. That point in the cross walk could have been as far as I would walk ever again.

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Imagine how close we come to danger. All kinds of danger: mind, body, and spiritually. Instead of actually being hit, we walk right past it chuckling and shaking our heads not realizing that it would have been our hurt. Don't get impatient, God may very well be holding you back from being right in position to be crippled.