Random thoughts and bad drivers

I'm about to cross the George Washington bridge in New York City. I'm sitting in stop and go traffic and there are big signs saying that the right lane is going to end. So, every intelligent person goes ahead and gets in line and waits patiently. Then some Yahoos start racing down the right lane to cut in front of everyone because I'm sure that where they are going is so much more important than the hundred cars they are squeezing in front of. With every car that passes my blood pressure goes up a couple notches. I'm beginning to visualize how I'm going to block these people when I get to the front of the line and wave my Christian Surfers sticker at them and say something like didn't your mom teach you to wait in line...
Then I start to think about all the crazy stuff Jesus taught. Things like; love your enemy, do good to those that harm you, don't return evil for evil. So, I start feeling a bit bad about all the Chuck Norris maneuvers I'm dreaming of using and start feeling a little compassion for the "bad drivers". I begin to have utopian thoughts about how maybe if I let someone in then they will let someone else in and we'll end up making a sequel to "Pay It Forward". But, I've been around long enough to know that there will always be bad drivers. Then a verse that I heard this weekend comes to mind: "Children obey your parents in the Lord, FOR THIS IS RIGHT..." I started to think about how maybe I should let these guys merge in because Jesus said to be kind to them and simply because it's the right thing to do. Later I was looking at this old church and thought how God is building something and we need to do what is right because HE has a plan and requires our obedience. Oh yea, I let the guys (plural) in and thought about how Jesus hung on a cross for those people. It's kind of foreign thinking today to do something just because it's right but God's still into it.