“How does he know where he’s going, if he’s going the wrong way?” asked my granddaughter. “What do you mean?” I ask her. We were at the school bus stop and a huge tractor was working on the dirt roads, smoothing and clearing them.The size of this heavy equipment tractor was quite large and as I studied it, I understood where my granddaughter saw it as going the wrong way, just by the way it was built.
I noted to her that the operator was going the right way even though it seemed like he wasn’t. I pointed out the difference between the front and back, although they looked quite the same.
“It’s funny nana, he looks like he’s going the wrong way but he’s really going the right way!” she noted after seeing it for what it was.
I took the opportunity to explain that life is like that; people, relationships, places, etc. I shared that we have to be careful when we choose such because sometimes it looks “right” but it’s not.
The focus was on the word, choose. Joshua told the people; “So fear the Lord and serve him wholeheartedly…serve the Lord alone. But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose this day whom you will serve. But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”
The choice is ours; which way to go- the right way or the wrong way?
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