Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord. Proverbs 23:17
Doesn't it seem like the dishonest get ahead? Those who lie, cheat and steal run around in Mercedes Benz's while we are trying to keep a 10 year old car from finally expiring? For quite awhile in my life, I resented having to be honest. It seemed better to conceal matters; it was more humiliating to own up to something I did. When I was a bus driver in a ski area, we were told to report it whenever we even scraped a snow pole. Driving in snow is difficult. Driving a BUS in snow can sometimes be nearly impossible, especially when you are hurtling down a hill in a white-out with the aisles jam-packed and the windows covered over with a haze of steam. So, I told them every time I scraped a snow pole. (A couple times) This was not a difficult thing to do. I knew ALOT of drivers were doing it, but I was the only one egged on by God, owning up to it. What happened to me? Instead of being praised for my honesty, I was humiliated and made to feel incompetent. Yet, I knew this is what the Lord wanted me to do. I did not recieve any sort of reward for this; in fact, I was not rehired. It did not seem fair, but it DID seem better to do what the Lord wanted me to do. In the long run, it made me a better person for the Lord. He changed me in His Ways into His person. In retrospect, this was alot more important that concealing the scraping of a couple snow poles.
Posts: 307 | Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA | Registered: July 06, 2001
