The Bullet of Repentance: Don’t Judge the Message by the Sign
As a college student I can still vividly recall being lost on the mountain roads of Colorado. None of us in the car knew the way. We were running late and it was getting dark. The map of how to reach the retreat center was so clear when we first read it in Texas. Now, we were confused! The panic of lostness and the frustration of wasted time began to take their toll.
At last … after retracing routs and kicking up mountain road dust someone noticed the sign we had all previously missed. The words had been heavily weathered. Part of the sign was broken off. It had been nailed on a fence post low to the ground. In addition, the left mount had broken loose and the sign hung more vertically than horizontally.
In short, everything that could be wrong with a sign was wrong! So it is with all people, preachers included. They are signposts to those of us who have their eyes open to read them. Some point us to what’s right by their good example. Others point us away from what’s wrong by their bad example.
Read the “signs” folks! They can lead us to the truth. What they are in themselves makes little difference if you use them to point you in the right direction. Don’t fret! It’s God’s business to handle the maintenance of “the signs.” It’s our business to read them and to move in the right direction.
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