By Lisa Cardinal
It happened many years ago, but I remember as though it were yesterday …
“Watch where you’re going!”
My dad was teaching me to ride my two-wheel bike, and he was frantically yelling. I was pedaling, steering, applying breaks, and trying to follow those instructions. The next thing I knew, I crashed into a row of thorn bushes.
I WAS watching where I was going. I DID see the bushes coming, and I kept watching until I was inside them.
“Look in the direction you want to go” would have been better instructions. Eventually, I learned that my bike would go in whatever direction I was looking. If I wanted to stay on the road, all I had to do was look at the road.
We are pedaling through 2026, and all kinds of things grab our attention. The instruction to “Look in the direction you want to go” is as key to living as a Jesus’ follower as it is to keeping a bike on the road. Time in prayer and God’s Word are the way we, as Jesus followers, “Look in the direction we want to go.”
CLICK HERE to check out the Bible study plan offered for the first quarter by Newday Adventist Church. It’s not too late to get started. Imagine what would happen if, together in 2026, we “Look in the direction we want to go!”
—Lisa Cardinal is lead pastor at Newday Adventist Church. Photo by Sebastian Pociecha of Unsplash.
