TRAIN CROSSING

while our team was heading to Yamagata (a neighbouring city), we passed a train crossing. the bars were down and people were all lined up in their vehicles, waiting for the train to pass and the signals to stop flashing so that they could carry on with the rest of their lives. it seemed like a normal picture to me until i realized something: i was sitting on that train that those people were waiting for! the strangeness of seeing it from the other side was sort of eerie.

i guess that's how it is sometimes with our lives. sometimes, we look at people and pity them for seeming to be stuck where they are in their spiritual journeys. or, we get distressed that people aren't getting closer to Christ. and then God shows us that they're not moving because we're in the way!

anyway, it's a short one today. but trust me, if you're ever in a train and you pass a crossing where people are waiting for you, it's a very weird sensation.

"Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering."
~Luke 11:52~