Are You Progressive?

 We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

C. S. Lewis

Yes, it is called progressive. It is also called, on the spiritual road at least, repentance.

What is it that keeps us stubbornly headed down the wrong road travelling towards a destination that is not productive? Why do we do things like this to ourselves?

Admitting we have made such a grievous error and travelled so far down a road in the wrong direction is something that can be difficult to take. We want to be right. However, wouldn’t we be “more right” by admitting we are wrong?

It is amazing that is all God ever asks of us, to recognize and speak out loud, what we already know, then to take the action necessary to get ourselves on the right road traveling the correct direction. God has already provided everything we need to make that happen. All that is necessary is for us to accept the reality of our need for His saving grace.

Some of us have travelled a long time in the wrong direction. That is not a commentary on the “seriousness” of our sin, for every sin is serious. It is more a commentary on how entrenched our wrongness may be without our even realizing it. It has become habit. We assume it is part of who we are. Jesus Christ wants to give us a new identity. He wants to tell us that we are much better than we ever realized. He wants to remind us that we are a child of the King, an heir of all that exists.

With all that said, only one decision remains. Would you rather continue down the road you are currently travelling so you can claim to be the master of your own destiny, or would you rather accept a course correction provided by your Creator and be truly progressive?

 

Pastor Craig