I am a compulsive rambler, not speaking (well maybe that too) but driving, walking, moving. I love to tool around with no particular place to go.
Side roads are big adventures for me, my curiosity gets the best of me and I wonder what new things to see can be realized by just deviating from the path.
I have found cool restaurants, seen great scenery, stumbled upon some unique stores and spent a lot of great time with friends because of taking the side road.
The other side is that I have hit dead ends, been in scary places, and even once found a road that ended straight into a river.
Each time I had to backtrack out of these situations to get back to the main road, a place I knew.
Each time I felt like I had wasted time and energy only to have to go back to the place I started.
Life is full of side roads; we will take some good ones and some bad ones.
We will find some really cool things, and we will at times hit dead ends and scary stuff.
One solution is to decide to never take the side roads….but that doesn’t seem much like a solution at all.
It seems boring, rote, and unspectacular and I don’t think God wants our lives to be boring, rote, and unspectacular.
I think he wants us to take Him with us on the adventuresome side roads of life.
He wants us to explore and find His will in our lives. I don’t think that comes by waiting, I think it comes by doing.
We will surely be enriched by the good stuff, but when we keep God with us, the cool thing is that we are enriched by the bad stuff as well.