Control

 

Four years ago, I lost my passenger side mirror to an eighteen-wheeler who felt the need to be in control of the interstate.  I was in the left lane and slower traffic was in the right lane.  As both lanes of traffic approached the I-75/24 merge, this trucker decided that no one should get ahead of him, so he pulled left to block both lanes.  But I was in the left lane that he was attempting to block.  I tried to slow down and drop in behind him, but he came over and I lost my mirror in the process.  I was fortunate not to have been in an accident (not that my mirror doesn’t count).  He just did not want anyone to pass him.  He thought that he was in charge of the interstate.  Hey, do you know someone who is controlling?  They are not satisfied with controlling themselves, they must control others too.  Paul said that we should not try to control one another, but that we should be kind one to another.  Paul said in Ephesians 4:32, “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”  Instead of control, let’s practice love today.  Instead of force, let’s use kindness.  It might make a change in your world.  It WILL make a change in yourself!