Man, what a week... I have been working as the bank's courier all week. So I have been driving almost 200 miles a day. And as luck with have it, I got two tickets this week. One of them was one of those tickets that are issued to you with a camera for running a Yellow light. Stupid, I think. Then the other one was in town and the police office said I accelerated through a Yellow light. Now I don’t know about you, but I have never heard that was a violation before. But these two tickets got me to think about yellow lights and sin. Let me explain.., Sin is a lot like a yellow light. We see all the warning signs that we are about to sin. Temptation is not a sin so it is a Green Light. I mean even Jesus was tempted.
Matthew 4:1-11
“Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written: "'He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'" Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'" Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. "All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me." 10 Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'" 11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him
But when we begin to fall in to temptation God give us a warning that says hey stupid, the is LIGHT Yellow and is about to turn RED and you need to slow down and stop, but we as human will sometime speed up and go right ahead and charge though. Thinking we can make it. We allow ourselves to get so close to our temptations (YELLOW Lights) then when it is too late, BANG, we have ran the (RED Light) and committed a sin. Now with this sometimes we get caught right away. As in my case when the police office was sitting on the corner. So with our sin, we may use a sinful world and everyone hears it. But then sometimes the consequences is not felt or realized until later. Like with my ticket that came in the mail a few days later. Example we go to far with our boy / girl friend one night and end up having sex before marriage. There may not be any consequences at first, but years later this may change your whole life! But either way we are going to pay the price for running life’s YELLOW lights or breaking God’s commandments. I just wonder how many YELLOW lights of life I have ran and not even realized it yet. Maybe we should slow down and when we come to those points in our life and begin to see the warning that The Lord is giving us we need to go ahead and come to a complete stop, so we can drive in this thing called life safely and go though the Green lights more and enjoy the ride and not worry about falling in to temptation.
