{{2011_05_16_t1.jpg}} {{2011_05_16_t2.jpg}} {{2011_05_16_t3.jpg}} [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/de/doku.php/jn_de_2011_05_16|Deutsche Version]] [[Start|| Wiki Start]] [[topics_collection_iii|| Topics Collection iii ]] ======Green Light Ride ...====== Monday, May 16, 2011. Today I drove to work, where usually I take my bike where ever possible. But this morning all lights were green. It was an interesting experience, with about 8 lights on the way, all jumping to green shortly before I reached the point where I would have had to use the breaks. {{2011_05_16.jpg }} **Red or Green? ...** There are days, where everything seems to go through. You probably know the times when all works, no problem seems to appear on the horizon. It is like a week of sunshine and peasant temperature. Not too hot, not too cold, just right. Days where the luck seems to follow us and prepare everything to work well. But there are also other days. For the distance from our home to work, which takes around 13 minutes by car when all is green, I once needed 40 minutes, with quite a while driving around the block searching for a parking place. That morning started with red lights, had red lights over the full journey and ended with 15 minutes searching just for a little place to park the car. There are days which force us into a waiting mode. Things go wrong. The whole day seems waisted. There is no progress with important things. Life seems to be full of odd numbers, narrow roads, traffic jams and unfriendly people around. {{ 2011_05_16_2.jpg}} **God's View is Different ...** I had to realize that God's view into our day is different from our own view. God knows us well when all lights are green. And he knows us well when all lights are red. For him, it is not the most important point for us to make everything work well - to generate a series of green lights. It would be no problem to do this, if he wanted. But it is not important. Other things are much more important. There are two points which are important here, I think. One is the following: sometimes it is God himself who puts red lights into our way. He wants us to stop and think. He wants us to step one step back from the things we are doing and to change our attitude and behaviour. He wants us to turn. He wants us to repent. He wants us to adjust our goals and our habits! Red lights in our life can be God talking to us!! The second point: why should all lights be green? Often, there are many people who want to travel. They all want to make progress. They all need green lights, to get to their destination. It is not healthy if some get green lights all the time. Life will be a mixture of green and red lights, to serve everyone. So it is a matter of social behaviour, call it love to the others, to accept a good portion of red lights, just to give others the opportunity to make progess as well. It is important to learn to wait. This point is quite deep, in fact, we will need to think more about it another time ... [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/doku.php/topics_collection_iii|... more texts]]