Have you ever taken the time out to think about how Jesus
would be if he were here living on earth in this modern time?
What kind of driver would he be on these modern roads? I
could imagine Jesus being “that guy” who everyone hates to drive behind: he
stays within the speed limit, stops traffic to let cars merge in front of him,
lets a line of cars in a driveway pull in front of him while another line of
cars waits impatiently behind him. He would have the utmost patience on the
road.
He would get cut off daily, cursed out on the regular and
probably flicked off every other day. But you know what wouldn’t happen?
He wouldn’t change one bit. He would continue letting
everyone and their mama get in front of him, he would continue to follow the
rules of the road and people would continue to get pissed off while he would
still love them all the same.
I aspire to be like that—unbothered by outside forces, able
to love in the face of anger, to forgive even when treated wrong repeatedly, to
remain constant when everyone else is changing and moving too fast. Imagine how
freeing it would be not to switch moods every time someone shows they
disapprove of the things you do.
None of this is impossible, because if Jesus was still a man
on earth he’d probably act just like this.
