Warning, Warning

Why do we ignore warning signs?  We cross railroad tracks just before the arms go down. We speed through yellow traffic signals.  We make U turns where it is prohibited.  We are all guilty.  I received an email from a friend requesting my cell and home phone numbers because her phone had crashed.  She lost all of her data.  In retrospect, she said the warning signs were there.  I think I have been ignoring those same signs.  Dropped contacts, needing to reboot frequently and avoiding places that do not have charging stations all feel like premonitions of oncoming doom.  Paying attention to warning signs and responding accordingly leads to a good outcome.

 

                                                                                    ^{Matthew 2:12}

¹² Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own country another way.

 

The wise men had been asked by Herod to inform him of the location of this child who would be king.  After worshipping the baby Jesus, they were warned in a dream not to comply with Herod’s request.  They took heed of the warning and returned home a different way.  What if we took notice of the warnings God graciously places in our lives.  What if we responded to warning signals by actually changing direction, make a course correction and without hesitation head down the correct path.  We lose a lot more than data when we ignore God sent warnings.  Let’s all agree to comply with the signs.