Driving is a superb illustration for all times.
First, what makes driving secure? That line painted down the center of the highway. It’s a boundary that tells you what lane is yours and what lane is mine.
Second, in driving and in life, we encounter folks and circumstances all over the place we go that drive us to reply shortly and make good choices.
And third, to get to the place we wish to go, we should be within the appropriate lane.
Kevin Thompson, a pastor at Bayside Church in Roseville, California, says, “After we don’t keep in our lane, we concentrate on a future we are able to’t management or on a previous we are able to’t undo, and we lose sight of the current. We spin our wheels, however we don’t transfer ahead.”
Kevin joined me on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, to share three lanes to navigate with regards to defending necessary relationships by way of troublesome conditions:
- Lane 1: What’s Mine?
- “What’s mine in marriage?” You may’t management your partner, however you may management your self.
- “What’s mine at work?” Look at your job description. Outline success. Spend your time doing issues that transfer your profession ahead.
- “What’s mine in parenting?” Mannequin intentional dwelling in your children. Don’t management; affect.
- Lane 2: What’s Theirs?
Honor different folks’s sense of self. Let their emotions, selections, and penalties belong to them. Their life just isn’t your life.
- Lane 3: What’s God’s?
After we depart God’s stuff to Him, we’re free to like others and to reply to challenges with belief and gratitude.
Hearken to my full dialog with Kevin Thompson in your local radio station, online, on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, on our free phone app, or watch on YouTube. This program is a component of our “Better of” collection for 2024, airing all through the month of December.
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