It’s Not Good To Think You’re Right When You’re Wrong

Beloved Hubby got a surprise in the mail a while back. Neither of us remembered intentionally running a red light on our last togetherness trip to Houston but there it was, a clear picture of our car going under a traffic light while it was red. “Smile, you’re on Candid Camera” and here’s a little fine to remember us by. Thanks, Texas. Photographic evidence is a real stinker, isn’t it?

Of course, there’s plenty misery in our company, I mean company in our misery. I heard about a man who was driving past one of those things mounted on a light pole when he thought he saw it flash. This irritated him as he was positive that he hadn’t been speeding, nor running a stop sign or a red light, or in any other way breaking the laws of the land. He decided to turn around and drive back by it, just to see what would happen. Sure enough, as he passed the camera, it flashed again. What in the world? Our driver turned around and tried again. Flash! After repeating his experiment a couple more times, the fellow finally drove away, having decided that the camera was malfunctioning. Wrong, a few weeks later the poor soul got five tickets in the mail—for seatbelt violations.

Bless his heart. It’s tough to think you’re in the right and find out that you’re wrong, but it happens. It happens in this life, and it’ll happen in the next. Sorry. I realize that’s sobering, but I have to say it. I don’t want such a fate to befall anyone, and yet the Bible clearly states in Matthew 7:23 that a day is coming when men will present themselves to the Lord with all of their churchified credentials, only to hear Him say, “Depart from me, I never knew you.” Don’t be in that number! John 17:3 says, “Eternal life is to know God and Jesus Christ who He has sent.” It’s not only possible to know Him; He wants you to know that you know Him! Don’t stop until you do.

Hugs,
Shellie