Guess What I Saw This Morning?
Kingdom parents, Let me tell you what I saw this morning. I was driving home after dropping my kids off, not really paying attention like I should have been, trying to correct a turn I missed, and right in front of me a cat stepped off the sidewalk into the street. I stopped and just looked at it like… what are you doing? Its fur puffed up and it froze right there in the middle of the road like it was scared, but not scared enough to move. So I looked to see what had its attention, and this cat was locked in on a squirrel. Now I’m irritated because in my mind I’m thinking, you’re about to lose your life over a squirrel? This cat looked stupid.. sorry lol. That’s really what I thought. So I honked, and the moment I did, that cat snapped out of it, looked at me, and turned around quick and ran right back to the sidewalk. And it hit me. How many times do we look just like that? So focused on something, so locked in, that we don’t even realize we’ve stepped into danger. Chasing something, arguing about something, holding onto something, trying to prove something… and from the outside looking in, it looks stupid because you’re risking everything over something that doesn’t even matter like that. And sometimes God has to honk at us. Not to scare us, but to wake us up. To get our attention. To make us look up and realize we’re in the wrong place. But the part that stuck with me the most was how fast that cat turned around. No arguing, no hesitation, no trying to make it make sense. It just moved. And some of us need to do the same thing. Stop justifying where you are. Stop trying to make it make sense. If you realize you’re in the wrong place, turn around. Quick. Because everything you’re focused on is not worth everything you’re risking. So I’ll ask you… what is something you’ve been so focused on that it might be pulling you out of position?