Charlie the Choo Choo was a train. Every day he would leave the station with his load of peanuts and head down the same set of tracks to the candy factory. Every day he would pass a beautiful, green meadow with wildflowers blooming and little bunny rabbits frolicking in the green grass.
Every day Charlie wished he could be free of his track to frolic in the meadow with the bunnies, but he just continued up and down his track back and forth, back and forth. Then one day it happened, Charlie could stand it no longer and jumped his track and headed for the meadow. "I want to be free!" he shouted as he left the tracks.
Do you know what happened? That's right. Charlie's big steel wheels got bogged down in the soft dirt of the meadow and he got stuck. You see, Charlie was only free as long as he stayed on the path that he was designed to take. The meadow, as beautiful and inviting as it seemed, was no place for a choo choo train. He couldn't move at all!
That's the same with us. We often think the path we have been designed to follow is holding us back, restricting us. We want the freedom to go off the path and do new and exciting things. The problem lies in the fact that, like Charlie, we are most free when we follow the path that we were designed to keep. There will certainly be places that will appear to be more fun and promise real freedom, when in fact, we can expect to bog down in the mire of the place.
We each have a path, a God-ordained plan, individually prepared just for us. Our freedom is finding that path and putting the hammer down. If we do, we are practically unstoppable!
Have a great day…full throttle!
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