Highway 401

Have you ever noticed that transport trucks love the middle lane of the highway? I remember back to my time getting a driver’s licence and reading somewhere in the free booklet, “slow traffic, keep right” and “Don’t pass on the right”. Do you remember that? Thought so. So why do these trucks sit for hours in the middle lane?

I believe their logic has to do with making time. No, we can’t create or make time. God only gave us 24hours in a day. What drivers think is, they want to get where they are going as quickly as possible. After all, isn’t time money? That’s a personal question that each of us has to wrestle with at many times of our lives. But there is within that concept an important lesson.

Even if we do not believe that time is money we all want to save some time in our lives. We all want to ‘get things done’ if you will, so you can move on to something more rewarding or fun or just more important. I’m of the opinion that we all have things we need to do in life. Things like go to school, go to work or even household chores. But as you know, there is more to life than doing.

Truck drivers are at work and they want to get home just like the rest of us. To get home quickly, they get in the lane that has the least amount of restrictions so to getting further down the road quicker. The next time you are on the highway, sit in the curb lane for a while and see how many times you have to slow down due to traffic coming on the highway or slower drivers. You see, the truck drivers have figured it out.

We can learn from these truck drivers. Each and every day, we must steer clear of anything that prevents us from getting to where we need to be and that place is close to Jesus Christ. We steer around obstacles in life, distractions, sin, or any other thing that gets in the way, Those things get in the way of the most important part of our lives. Those things slow us down, distract us or just prevent us from getting home to Jesus before the dark.

Something to think about. 

Rob