Scratched Records

If you could look forward into the future, you would know where your choices would carry you. Of courses we can’t do that, but think of where are our current habits are leading us?  What is my current rut and where’s it going? People love ruts. I mean we are creatures of habit, even if our habit is avoiding them. We have cycles and patterns of the foods we eat, and the places we go; we even have routines in personal grooming and a list that could go on and on. These cycles repeat until the record’s bumped. I’m referring to the old scratched records we used to play. Yeah, I’m getting old! Slowly we’re bumped into new flows and groves. It’s said, “The only thing that’s certain is change.” But, after each change, we look for a new rut. We look for the comfort of familiarity.

While I say this out loud in this public place, it’s really just for me. I’m ready for another bump. I want to move closer to Jesus. I want to shed away more of the “world,” and love more like Christ.

Move me forward Jesus, move us forward!

^“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.” I John 2:15-17 NIV