A Yielded Heart #livefreeThursday

Joining with my friend Suzie Eller for #livefreethursday.  Be sure to pop by her site.

Yielding is never really seen as the “big move” when you are driving.  I mean everyone’s favorite is , “Go,” because it seems to get you and your car where you want to be, your next destination.

And , “stop”  seems important because well if you don’t stop, and everyone else does a crash is coming.  Or if other people are going which is why you are supposed to stop, a crash is coming.

But yield.  Well, I know people (sometimes me, let’s be honest) can tend to treat a yield sign the same way you do a yellow light .  Let’s try to get through it.

But yielding is important.

I will never forget  the time I didn’t yield.  There was not a sign, but you know if you are going to turn right on red, you must first yield.

I did yield, but just not long enough.  I turned right, not noticing that the people on the other side of the intersection had a green arrow.

CRASH.

Oh, that awful feeling when you know that a crash is coming.

I remember stepping out of the car and apologizing right away.  When the cop got there He seemed very surprised when I threw my hands up in the air and said, ” It’s my fault.”

He said he was not used to  an admission of guilt like that.

He could have written me a ticket.  Let’s not talk about how my tags were expired because I could not pass the emissions test in my county, how my car looked like a homeless person lived in it because I am constantly traveling and I had left my purse and my driver’s license in my boss’s car that night.

But instead of a ticket, He gave me grace.  And the person I was in a crash with gave me grace also.

Yielding was important.

I am so grateful for the ways in which God offers grace when I am not yielding in obedience to His will.  Sometimes, like the Israelites, it means more wilderness wanderings, but He does give grace.

I would much rather yield to God’s ways than crash taking my own way.

I love Suzie’s quote.

Living a yielded life is rarely a big move, it’s simply telling Jesus yes over and over again.

I believe that often involves, like yielding at a yield sign, a pause to seek and see what  yes or no God is calling us to.

Where is God asking you to yield for His direction?