NEVER TO LATE

 

               Today many people want to live their own lives without responsibility or

attachments.  Now this is not a new idea in fact when I was a teenager many of

my fellow young people were doing that.  We were called hippies.  Yes, it is hard

to imagine that straight shooting and even to a point straight thinking Robert

Dean Steel was a hippy.  I had the long hair, the beads, tie dye tee shirts and

bell bottoms.  I studied all kinds of philosophies and was into all kinds of weird

stuff as a young person.  It wasn't till I became a Christian that I feel I got some

common sense.   Now what I learned in those years that no matter how free and

independent you think or would like to be, you still effect others.  In the free and

so called liberated thinking of the hippy days I saw many hearts broken including

mine.  I saw lives ruined by drugs, alcohol, substance abuse and immorality.  I

saw several of my friends killed by alcohol and drug related activities.  I almost

became a victim myself on a few occasions.  It was when I had my own reality

check did I smarten up and decide to find a better and more fulfilling way.  That

is when I let God come into my life.  He has been my guiding light for a long time.

The common sense approach I take to family and life in general come from Him. 

So, I thought I would share a little story to illustrate the point of letting Him

guide our lives instead of ourselves. 

               Years ago, an old Scottish woman went to country homes to sell thread,

buttons and shoestrings.  When she came to unmarked crossroad, she would

toss a stick in the air and go which ever the way the stick pointed.  One day

she was seen tossing the stick into the air several times.  "Why do you toss the

stick several times," some asked.  She answered in a deep husky highland voice,

"It has pointed every time to the road on the right, and I want to go on the road

to the left.  It looks smoother."  She kept on throwing the stick into the air until

it pointed to the road she wanted to go.

                Now that I am older, I see that things are not all that different people are still trying to  

Do the same things.  Things have no change even though some people today will try to

Tell us we have improved.  Recent events around the world have shown us that instead of getting safer the world is a more dangerous place.  That is why we need the Lord even more.

               Proverbs 3:5-6 states, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not

unto your own understanding.  In all ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your

path."  To have a great life, family and future let God be your guiding light.  Let Him

direct your path.   He has been doing it for millions around the world.  It is never to

late to start.  Did you know that Colonel Saunders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame

came to Christ at the age of 74.  So its never to late.