Outrunning God.

Few months ago, during the Christmas season, we went for a community outreach in a particular village. Two buses conveyed us down to the place. However, since only the driver and the coordinator in our bus knew where exactly we were to stop in the village, our bus drove ahead while the other followed.

As we journeyed on, the driver of the other bus behind us suddenly overtook us. The people in my bus began to murmur, “Where is he going now? Does he even know the place?”

Alas, on getting to the junction of the village, we found the other bus waiting there as the driver of that bus didn’t know where exactly we were going. In spite of his speed, he couldn’t go further as he didn’t know the exact point of meeting.

The people in my bus laughed and said, “So what was the whole point of his speeding?”

This second bus driver knew only the direction to the village and not the meeting point, and the leverage the first bus driver had over him was that he knew the meeting point.

Like the second bus driver, some of us believers have a tendency to outrun God when He just wants to take the lead. We run ahead, leaving God behind. We say to ourselves, “After all, I can do all things, and His grace is abundant.”

As a result of this lack of patience, many of us have ‘outran’ God and gotten lost.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4:7 (KJV)

Despite our knowing that God’s grace is abundant, we need to give God the reins by allowing Him to lead and be our Guide.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Proverbs 3:5 (KJV)

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:1 (KJV)

There is safety in following God’s leading. Slow down, and ensure that you are on a path in which God is the lead driver.