Life Lessons: Jumping to Conclusions
A man was driving down a winding country lane when he came around a sharp curve and almost hit a car that was swerving all over the road. He jerked the wheel as he barely missed it. As they passed, the erratic driver shouted out the window, "Pig!"
Angrily the man managed to yell back, "Cow!"
For a brief moment, the man felt smug with his quick response. He then sped around the next curve and slammed headlong into a large pig standing in the middle of the road.
How many times have you reacted in anger only to find out later that things were quite different from what you originally perceived?
King Solomon wrote three thousand years ago, "A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult" (Proverbs 12:16 NIV).
Before losing your temper and jumping to conclusions, calm down, find out what is really going on, and you just might miss hitting a pig standing in the middle of the road.
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Gary Petty
Gary Petty is a 1978 graduate of Ambassador College with a BS in mass communications. He worked for six years in radio in Pennsylvania and Texas. He was ordained a minister in 1984 and has served congregations in Longview and Houston Texas; Rockford, Illinois; Janesville and Beloit, Wisconsin; and San Antonio, Austin and Waco, Texas. He presently pastors United Church of God congregations in Nashville, Murfreesboro and Jackson, Tennessee.
Gary says he's "excited to be a part of preaching the good news of God's Kingdom over the airwaves," and "trusts the material presented will make a helpful difference in people's lives, bringing them closer to a relationship with their heavenly Father."
