Take The Auto-Pilot Off
Receiving six inches of rain in the period of three or four days is not fun. A creek is running through a normally dry ditch that sits in front of my house. The Little River has not been so little for the last little bit. Road have been blocked, washed out or even fallen completely off of a mountain. Life has not been normal.
Danger is everywhere, so you have to be alert. You have to adjust your life a little. You may leave a bit early. You take a different route to where you’re headed. Your senses are heightened to imminent threats. You have to be a bit more careful.
That lasts for a little while and then life resumes back to normal. I realized that on my drive into work after things had settled down a bit. I was back on auto-pilot and turned down a road I normally take. I was jarred back awake when I saw the warning barrels. The road ahead was still flooded. I asked Jan, “What was I doing?” Obviously, I was not as concerned about the potential dangers of my trip.
Life can be like that for us, can’t it? We cruise along on auto-pilot. We’re not aware of the danger around us. If you don’t get what I’m talking about, I’ve moved on from the flooding in East Tennessee last week.
I’m talking about our spiritual lives.
We don’t stay alert to the threats around us. We are content to just sleep walk through life. We don’t think about the fact that the enemy is a roaring lion seeking to devour us.
Sometimes we need to run into an orange barrel to wake us up. To jar us out of our sleep. To make us alert to what is going on.
We need to take it off of auto-pilot.
Do you ever realized that you need to take the auto-pilot off?
I find myself running on auto-pilot way too often. This month I have asked the church to fast and pray. About every day was filled. I am in my time and am praying for a move of God’s Spirit to get me out of auto-pilot.
I will pray that with you, Bill.
Great thoughts. I do find myself on autopilot from time to time. It’s so important to have others to sharpen you. I’m praying that God brings some more men of iron to help sharpen me from time to time. I don’t have a lot of that and need it in order to stay sharp.
That’s one of the great things about my new church, Rob. Lots of men to challenge me.
It’s definitely easy to “coast” along through our regular routines of life. Sometimes a flood or an obstacle of life can jar us awake. Hope you guys stay safe!
Thanks Jon. What is sad is that we drowned a car in that spot. I should have known better.