Living in Canada in the spring is wonderful. One of the things I enjoy about living in the Great White North is watching the geese come home from their hiatus in the south. The other day while sitting outside I noticed something I’ve never seen in the spring – geese flying south – yupper – they were flying the wrong way! I wondered if they were lost. I wondered if the leader was confused and the others were just following his lead because it’s what they do – follow.
I spent too many years of my life as a follower – the wrong kind of follower - following people who, in retrospect, were just as lost as I was. If they sounded reasonably intelligent, or appeared to have it together, I was right behind them – often with few questions asked. I rarely made my own decisions or formed my own opinions. Why bother? There was always someone who knew better that I relied on.
The first half of my adult life I spent going the wrong way. I have to say, in defence of most of my “leaders”, their intentions were good – they just didn’t know any better. As a parent, I have been a person of great influence on my children. Unfortunately, they had little choice but to follow my lead – and my intentions were good, but the road to you know where is paved with good intentions.
Very few people have an opportunity to change the impact of a poor decision. Many of us form opinions and make decisions on a daily basis without fully understanding the potential consequences, but there is a decision that every person on this planet has to make that will have eternal consequences.
In those days, when I thought I knew it all, I had allowed myself to be convinced that the Word of God – the Bible – was just a bunch of stories made up by a bunch of people. I thought that as long as someone had a “higher power” in their life they’d do just fine in life. They’d have good karma and they’d end up in heaven. I was wrong. Five years of studying has completely and irrevocably changed my mind. If you’re going the wrong way, the time to turn is now.
“Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?” Luke 6:39.
