Burning Bridges

Most of us have heard the phrase burning bridges.  It's usually seen as a negative and we are advised not to do it.  But could it sometimes be a positive?  I recently saw a poster that said "Sometimes burning bridges isn't a bad thing.  It prevents you from going back to a place you should never have been to begin with."  As we allow God to pull our immature hands away from our eyes and look at our faults, we have two choices: we can turn away from the wrong roads we have been walking and walk with Him, or we can return the way we came.  In Proverbs 26:11, we read a graphic statement about the latter choice: As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

 

An old proverb defines insanity as doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting a different result.  I don't know about you, but I don't want to leave this world (or live in it, for that matter) as insane.  When God shows me a weakness, I want Him to help make it a strength.  So I challenge myself and you to make a resolution this year of doing a course correction every time we recognize that our feet have left the path.  Then don't look back like Lot's wife. Allow that bridge to insanity to be burned so as not to be tempted to return to that place where we should not have been in the first place.  

Text copyright Gebara Education 2012
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