Look both ways before you cross the road

Week 1: Paying Attention

Look both ways before you cross the road.
Proverbs 4: 23-24

We hardly had any traffic on the road where we grew up. It was such an occasion that if we were working in the field adjacent to the road we could easily stop our work and wave to every person passing by without losing any productivity. Yet, despite oncoming traffic being a rarity, we were taught this proverb.

Do not assume you know everything. Do not move forward on the basis of past experience. Examine what you need to get to today in a fresh way. Is there anything coming that would cause you to become more urgent in your tasks? Is there anything coming that would cause you to be patient and wait? You decide but look both ways before you cross the road.

Please, get to know the Holy Spirit. How? Do it the same way you would with the girl of your dreams. Ask the Spirit to go out with you. Think about the Spirit all the time. Keep things in the order Jesus kept things in. "Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit and went about doing good healing all those oppressed of the devil." You were not primarily created to do good, you were created to be filled with the Spirit. Without the Spirit you will only add to the oppression. Without the verifying grace and peace of the Spirit don't even think about crossing the road.