Choose a lane in life and in driving…

Today as I was driving to Fort Lauderdale I took Flamingo Road to get to the I-595 exit. As I pull onto the side road that leads to the ramp, I notice the lady in front of me was driving in the center of the white lines (nope not an exaggeration). She is LITERALLY in the center of my lane and the lane to the right of me. She moves completely into my lane once she realizes she is about to hit the car in front of her. Then she does the most hilarious thing I have ever seen. She moves her car into the middle of my lane and the lane to the left of me (that exits to the 595 ramp). Not messing with you she straddles the white lines again, but in the opposite lane! I think to myself, “Okay maybe it’s her thing…straddling the line.” As she continues she realizes that she is about to enter the 595 ramp, which I guess was not part of her plan, because she STOPS her car (I mean a sudden complete STOP)! I come to a screeching halt so as not to ram my SUV into her back. Then Like nothing happens she sways to right and continues on her merry way, never acknowledging the mayhem she had caused the drivers behind, beside, and in front of her. The moral of the story: We can’t straddle the line. We have to make a choice, we have to commit to a “lane” in life, just like in driving.  On this journey we will be tempted to stay in the “in between”. In between here and there, this and that. Often times forgetting that our choice or lack therefore affects those around us. Today I couldn’t move to the lane I needed to be in because the driver in front of me wouldn’t choose a lane. As a sat writing this post I was convicted, because in my heart and in my life I know there are lines I am straddling, and because of my indecision people around me can’t move into the “lane” they need to be in. It’s time for me (and you) to choose a lane.

“And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose you this day who you will serve…” (Joshua 24:15).

So what am I thankful for today? Finding my lane, and driving in it.