September 29, 2024

On my way into the office one morning I passed a pickup truck & trailer parked on the opposite side of the road. The fellow was unloading a large mower, which I think he was going to use to mow the adjacent field. It being the morning rush, cars were backed up behind him waiting for openings to safely get around his rig. My biggest complaint about his approach was the placement of his safety cones around his equipment. If he had simply placed some behind his vehicle, there would have been warning aplenty, but he surrounded his workspace with them extending his intrusion into the roadway thus making it almost impossible to squeeze past him without crossing the center line.

I thought, “Now there’s a man who is concerned with his own safety and only his own safety.” Some people have tunnel vision, they can only see how they’re being affected by their actions and have no concern for the feelings or inconvenience of others. That focus is supposed to change when we become followers of Jesus. Unfortunately, too many of us fail to pay attention to what the Holy Spirit has to say about caring for the needs of others.

-Pastor Joel Everhart