Follow The Leader

Yesterday, my dad and I drove up to my school for move-in. 

We were both in separate cars so I had a lot of time to think. Four hours to be exact. 

I've been really interested lately in things in our lives that are metaphorical for our lives with God.

So we are driving up the highway and the leader kept changing. One of us would pass the other, then eventually we would switch. We both knew where we were going, but I am pretty sure he was doing it from memory (he went here too) whereas I had my GPS.

So I'm trying to find some sort of metaphor for this give-and-take relationship we had going on and I realized it's a perfect example of how we follow Christ. 

Really, my dad should have been in the lead because he's more confident with the route, but if I didn't like the pace he was going I would race ahead of him.

We do this all the time with God. We want to run and keep going when God just wants us to stay at his pace. Sometimes he kicks into high gear too and we are racing to keep up, but even when we lose sight of Him and can't see what He's doing we know he's there and we'll see Him again soon.

Really He should be leading because He knows exactly where he is going, when all we have to rely on is a road map. 

This summer one of the things I was trying to work on was prayer. I wanted to make it more meaningful and do it way more. I didn't have a set thing I was doing, I was just trying to remember to, but I was reading my Bible everyday on a journey through the New Testament with one of my friends. 

I didn't even realize that just by doing that and completely focusing, my mind was so much more set on Christ so it was easy to turn to prayer. Sometimes I would start reading then have to stop a paragraph in to pray because I knew my concentration would be so much better if I did and I would just have the strong urge to.

It has made such a difference in my life so far. 

I was so worried that this wouldn't last when I got back to school, but so far so good. 

It is so much a part of my everyday life I can't imagine it without it. 

I am taking part in this huge game of Follow The Leader and I just have to trust He is there and hope others will join me.