So have you ever been waiting at a stop sign to cross into a double lane road into a turning lane?Then, someone kindly stops and decides to let you out. However, they are inviting you to come on across with no acknowledgement of what's in the next lane. You might be able to go over, but you can't safely reach your destination without further assessment on what's coming. The kind driver is letting you out, but he doesn't know what you have to face once you're out there nor does he have to deal with the consequences. Well, this can surely lead to disaster.
Sometimes it's easy for us to accept invitations into another lane even when we know it's not safe on the other side. There were many times Andre and I've been encouraged to do things that were "out of our lane" by people who didn't know what we had to face. "Go ahead and get it." "Y'all could go ahead and buy that car." "I would go on and do it." These phrases were often told to us by people who were on a whole other financial level than we were and were not going to face any consequences for these decisions. We could not simply do what they were doing without getting in a financial mess bigger than the one we were already in. There were times we found ourselves trying to decide if we should cross into a lane that we knew wasn't safe for us. However, we recognized that we couldn't do what everybody did and when they did it. The timing wasn't right. The road wasn't safe. Our car was trying to be guided by too many helping hands that were pumping premium while we were struggling to get a quarter tank of 87. LOL! If Jesus ain't got his hands on the wheel and leading you safely in that direction, you better stay in your lane until he clears a path for you!
