Do We Really Want Progress?

Week 2: Repentance

Diligence cannot make up for the head start of disobedience. Repentance is the only remedy.
Luke 13

C. S. Lewis said, “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” I could have used this quote early in my marriage.

Karen and I were riding back home from Charlottesville when I decided to take a shortcut. It was the wrong thing to do. Karen told me but I didn’t listen. I persisted down this road, turning where I could, hoping to justify that first turn off the road home. An hour later despite my diligence we were back on the road from which we started.

Jesus says there is only one functional “shortcut” that gets us from where we are to the straight and narrow way home: repentance. How will you turn onto the road of repentance, today?

Pray for our nation today. Many have been warning for the last thirty years we were walking down the wrong economic road. Pray we will repent from our "progressive diligence".