Even the Bible recommends patience
I live in rural Moses Lake. I have 12 acres in the middle of agricultural land, and every year I am surrounded by corn.
By September I can’t see out because of a green wall around me. I am always grateful when the harvesting starts and I am set free.
Because of all this activity, it is only natural that once in a while, I will get caught behind a tractor moving equipment down the road.
I usually just take this in stride because I feel they have as much right to be there as I do. But the other day, I witnessed a person that did not share my sentiment.
I was following a tractor with a couple of disking devices attached behind it. The driver was doing a good 35 mph. So I figured I would pass him when I could, but I wasn’t in a big hurry.
It was at this time that a young woman in a truck passed me and squeezed in between my car and the tractor.
She then began easing toward the center line to look around. The coast was not clear. This seem to upset her greatly. She began slapping her hands on the stirring wheel and looking at her watch.
I became agitated just watching her, and she became more upset by the minute. In the end she passed the tractor with a car coming in the other direction.
Everyone had to break and move out of her way, and her pass caused danger to all involved.
As a witness to all of this, I had a Bible verse pop into my head. Proverbs 22:3 says, “The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.”
I couldn’t believe this young woman would risk her life and the lives of others just to get around a tractor. I know that there are urgent things in life but you can’t get to where you need to be if you are dead.
God cares about us too much to want us to be unjustifiably careless with the life He has given us. Our bodies are gifts from God that we are to honor and take care of.
I hope this woman figures that out before she hurts herself. My prayer for her and everyone is that they find God’s peace, which gives us understanding and patience.