Drive Thru

Every time Trevor and I decide to eat healthier we receive a McDonald's coupon book in the mail. 

It's just not right.

The most recent one even had the word CRAVE plastered across the front of it.  We have a hard enough time keeping ourselves from eating at McDonald's.  Slap on a discount and it's officially a lost cause.

The only time we were able to stop eating at McDonald's was when they tore it down and rebuilt it.  Yes, there's a McDonald's in Wal-Mart, but then you have to get out of your car and walk through Wal-Mart to get to it.  And the food tastes differently there.  I think a little Wal-Mart rubs off on it. 

Anywho, when the new McDonald's opened, we were ecstatic.  We went inside to check out the digs.  Pleather couches, fake fireplace, new playland, the works.  I even sat and watched Monday Night Football on a flat screen. Awesome.

One of my greatest joys came when I ventured over to the drive thru.

Two. Lanes.

Our little McDonald's is growing up!

But for some reason, the sweet, unassuming people in our town can't seem to adjust to the change of having two drive thru lanes. Which means extra bonus for me.

I get no greater joy than passing four or five cars up in line just by using the neglected extra lane. 

I should feel guilty.

But I don't.

They could use those lanes just as easily as I have.

But they won't.

So I get my sausage breakfast biscuit faster (thank you McDonald's for finally bringing biscuits to Canada).

Booyah.

But you're smart, right?  You wouldn't be the guy who has to wait ten extra minutes for his mcgriddle because he didn't want to change his habits.  Of course not.

Why are we so resistant to change? Maybe I'm rogue enough to use the new line at McDonald's.  But that doesn't mean I've got this down pat.

Sometimes we're set in our ways even when we know that it's not working for us. 

Why? 

Sometimes I wonder what God could accomplish if we allowed him to do a new thing in us.  In our church.  In our relationships.

"But forget all that— it is nothing compared to what I am going to do.

For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland."

  Isaiah 43:18-19

It's time to break out of our comforts and embrace the new.

What newness, what change is God drawing you to in your life?