Saturday – Open Topic

Reading – 2 Peter 1:3-11

Highlight Verses:

“In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness,”
‭‭2 Peter‬ ‭1‬:‭5‬-‭6‬ ‭NLT‬‬

The car guy in me is peaking out.

I thought of the following story as traffic flew around me the other day.

I wasn’t always a careful driver.

When I was in college, I had this little Opel 1900 wagon.

It wasn’t powerful but it handled well.

I was coming out of Santa Cruz on Highway 9, a very curvy narrow road.

A Mazda RX7 (sports car) was going very slowly ahead of me and let me pass. They then proceeded to follow right on my tail matching my speed as I enjoyed the twisty road.

I pushed that little wagon to it’s limits as we doubled the speed limit through the curves.

Toward the end of the curvy section, there was a turn out for slower vehicles. I knew the Mazda had far more power, so I pulled into the slow lane.

The other driver decided to pull around me before I was clear of the lane.

When they hit leaves and pine needles in the center of the road, they lost traction.

The next thing I knew, they had slid off the road and had stopped with the front peeking over the embankment and the wheels turned toward each other.

They were okay and I gave them a ride into town. I learned a lesson in recklessness that day. The lesson was far more expensive for them.

In the 41 years since then I’ve slowed down quite a bit but there are still times when I have to learn a lesson.

I pray that my eyes are open to the lessons I still need to learn. It’d be nice if those lessons weren’t too expensive either.

What was the most expensive lesson in patience that you had to learn?
Have the lessons gotten easier or harder as you get older?