“Getting Ahead”         April 25, 2011

            Bumpsters!   Maybe you don’t have these guys in your town.  (Sorry guys but I’ve noticed they’re almost always guys.)   They are hyper testosterone driven road-runners who rev their engines at red lights, blare obscene music through open windows, and never miss a chance to cut you off.  Where are they going?  Buy a beer?    See a chick?   Make a deal?    Funny thing is for all the wasted gas, stress, and drama they might shave a good twenty seconds off their trip.   (I know I sound like a jabbering old man.)      

            G.K. Chesterston once said, “One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.”   Psalm 37: 7 instructs us to “Be still, before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.”   In verse 9 those of us who trust in God are promised an inheritance of the land.  Verse 10 says, “soon the will wicked will disappear.  Though you look for them, they will be gone.”

            No matter what good things we attempt to accomplish in life no doubt oppositions will come.    We can’t allow Bumpsters and other obstacles get in the way of our commitments.   “No great work is ever done in a hurry.  To develop a great scientific discovery, to paint a great picture, to write an immortal poem, to become a minister, or a famous general~~to do anything great requires time, patience, and perseverance.” -W.J. Wilmont Buxton   Remember, to get ahead, we need only to keep moving in the right direction.