Jesus take the wheel

The Lord is teaching me alot through my son Caden.  He is 5 yrs old and in kindergarten.  He is a car-rider, everyday I take him to school and pick him up. 

Yesterday I was in the car-line waiting to pick him up when my phone rang. It was his school calling me to ask if Caden was supposed to be riding the bus home today. I told them no that he is a car-rider, and has always been one and I was outside waiting.  She quickly said he was on the bus let me see if I can catch the bus, and hung up the phone. Thankfully the bus was still in the parking lot and the teacher found him and brought him to me.  I asked him why did he get on the bus when he knows I take him home everyday.   His answer was "because I wanted to ride the bus.."

Caden goes to school out of our district, which means there is not a bus that goes to our home.  He had no bus to get on, he just got on one expecting it to take him home. Had the bus already left, he would have been riding, and riding, all the kids would have made it home, and he would have to ride the bus back to school where I would still be waiting on him. 

How many times in our lives do we do what WE want to do when the Holy Spirit is waiting in the driver seat to get us to our destination?  We often choose our own direction in life and it seems like it takes alot of u-turns before we get to our destination....till we get our spouse, job, or success we want in life. 

There is an easier way, choose to be led by the Holy Spirit.  Let Jesus take the wheel of your life and steer you to your destiny.  You will not only get there, but you will arrive on time!!!!

Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not depend on your own understanding.  Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take."

Isaiah 48:17
"This is what the Lord says - your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel:
"I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is good for you and leads you along paths you should follow.""

Psalm 23:3
"...he guides me along right paths, bringing honor to his name..."

Sticky Situation

A few days ago my son and I were at home on a Wednesday afternoon.  It was time to get ready for church. I went upstairs to throw on some makeup and iron the clothes. Caden, my 5 yr old son, came upstairs while I was getting ready and showed me his neck -- it was covered in sticky buble gum! While he was out of my sight he took his gum, chewed it up, stretched it out and wrapped it around his neck to make a bubble gum necklace.  After he figured out that wasn't a good idea, he tried to scrub it off  and scrub and scrub till his neck was red and STILL covered in gum.  So he came to me for my help as a last resort. He knew I would be disapointed but he also knew the gum wouldn't come off unless I got it off for him.  Although, he continued to try to do it himself, finally he gave up and let me try. He cried, he squirmed, but; after a trip to the store to get baby oil, and an hour of oiling him down, and scrubbing, and picking gum off of him and out of his little neck hairs, I finally got it all off.

Just as my son was out of my sight and did what he wanted to do; sometimes we step out of the will of God and follow our own desires and find ourselves in a sticky situation. We try to get out of our mess by ourselves only to find out that we need help. We run to the Father, "God, please help me out of this situation...".  Because God loves us so much He will help us. The extraction process doesn't feel good, we want immediate relief.  We don't want to go through the process of cleaning up the mess. So we cry, we rebel, we try to clean it up again ourselves and we continue to be in that same mess.  It is not until we surrender to God and let Him clean up our mess one area at a time, then we are out of that sticky situation - But you have to go through the process. There is not always an easy fix, but be patient and take comfort in God, He is our helper in our time of trouble no matter how sticky the situation!

Psalm 46:1  "God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble."

We can avoid many sticky situations if we live according to God's will and yield our lives to Him.

Proverbs 3: 5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight."