Reverse

As the light quickly turned to red he slammed on his brakes but still tapped the car in front of him. It wasn't a hard hit just a tap. The driver who he hit never even got out of their car. He put his car in reverse and simply backed up waiting for the light to change to green.

It had been one of those days. My friend, Harley, was a new single dad. It was his first Christmas alone and he was trying to do the whole shopping thing on his own. Crazed Moms had just about driven him to his limit and by this point he just wanted to go home. He had thrown in the towel and determined enough was enough.

As the light changed to green he hit the gas to only fly backwards ramming the car behind him! As the story goes, Harley slung his car into park, simply laid his head on the steering wheel and sat there. Thankfully there was no damage to the vehicle he hit and only slight damage to his car but what a story he had to tell. How many times do you hit someone at a redlight by backing into them? Not very many!

I don't know about you but for me I tend to back into stuff in my personal life all the time. I feel like I take two steps forward to only leap five steps backwards. Some days I feel like I take steps backwards because I'm too busy looking at what was back there in the first place. I'm too scared to look forward. To look at the unknown. I'm frightened that I will let someone down...let God down. I'm unsure of myself, my surroundings, of you. I tend to stumble over my own feet tapping things in front of me which makes me instinctively go into reverse to only slam into what is behind me. Back and forth...back and forth. But there is hope! "...focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead...press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us." Philippians 3:13-14 (NLT).