Letting Progress Happen

I'm working on improving my driving. What? You didn't see any problem? Well, It's just the matter of the 'posted' speed limit and the 'understood' speed limit.

For most people, it seems okay to drive ten miles per hour over the speed limit as listed on the highway signs. I call this the understood speed limit. It's as if we all agreed to change the speed limit without consulting our fine officers in blue. I know that it's wrong, and illegal, but it's common practice.

When my wife and I make long road trips, I try to drive no more than five miles per hour over the legal limit. She reminds me, gently, what the signs say. My argument is that I'm impeding the movement of traffic by driving slower than the other vehicles, and I want to do what's best for all involved. She maintains that if you stay in the "slow" lane, traffic will safely flow around you. Well, I've tried that... and she's right.

I see a spiritual analogy here. God has a road for our lives to follow, and a pace he wants us to proceed at. Watch the signs! If you get too far ahead of God's intentions, you just might have a wreck.

"Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:30-31