The Drive

I love to drive. I know that if you read my tweets during my early morning commutes or during my evening drive home you may find that hard to believe, but I really do love to drive. Wait...hold on....let me be a little more specific. I love to drive on an open road in a car that has some get up and go. I am not that guy driving down the highway at mach 1, but I do prefer to go 70 instead of 55 when its legal to do so. That is one thing I honestly enjoy about my drive.
My drive to and from work is an hour each way and I almost always hit traffic. So, while at work dreading the inevitable rush hour(s) commute, I figured that I would plot out a quicker way home. See, when I first got this job I went to map quest, put my address, put in my new company address, and followed directions the best that I could: 70 <> 270 <> Olive Blvd. That was the "quickest" way. I soon found out that I was wrong! What was suppose to be about a 45 minute drive each way turned into a hour or more each way. See what I thought was going to be the easy way, turned into the hard way.
Kind of a stretch, but God really pointed some things out to me during this time. I plotted a new route, and shaved about 10 minutes off my drive each way, but added about 10 more miles. Sometimes the path of least resistance is actually the hardest way to go, and sometimes the what looks like the best way to go from point A to point B is actually the worst decision you should make. I figured how to get to work, I just depended on something else (map quest) to make my decision for me. I know how to read a map, I just chose the quickest way and it cost me the most amount of time.
Since this lesson, I have found myself examining how and why I do things the way I do. Some people think the status quo is okay. "It is what I have done all my life." I am tired of that excuse. I have also sinned all my life, but it isn't an excuse to keep making the same mistakes. "I don't like change". Then you misunderstand God, because He is the one who called you to turn away from your evil ways, who called you to change everything you know about love, life, and how to be. I needed this fresh look and new perspective. It moved me. It inspired me to find out how to have a better relationship with Christ, with my wife, and with the people I know the most. So...are you taking the quickest way or are you taking God's way?