It was very good to be back with you for worship on Sunday after a few weeks away. As most of you know, Amber and I spent about 10 days in London for our 20th wedding anniversary over the turn of the year. We loved every minute and got to visit several wonderful places and made memories that will stay with us for the rest of our lives.
We did not rent a car while we were there. In fact, we never rode in a car, period! Not a taxi or an Uber. We took public transit everywhere, and of course, that meant that we also did a lot of walking!
As you probably know, they drive on the wrong side of the road over there in the United
Kingdom. Which, again, we didn’t drive so there was no driving curve to learn. But, we walked a ton in the city and that meant crossing hundreds of London city streets. Like all of you, I have spent the entirety of my 43 years on this earth looking left first before I crossed a street. How many times have you told your children: “Look left, then right, and then left again, and then you can cross the street.”? Looking left is all I’ve ever done. It’s my natural bent. All my life, my most immediate danger was to my left.
Now, to be fair, the English know they are doing it wrong, because they are aware that everyone who visits their country is instinctively looking left first when crossing a street. And the reason that I know that is that if you look down at the pavement at every crosswalk you will see - painted on the street in bold, all capital letters - “LOOK RIGHT”. It is there to give every foreigner a clear word that could save their life.
At every crosswalk, you will be reminded: “your natural instincts will kill you. So, look right.” Truthfully, the world around us is looking for something that will bring meaning or fulfillment to their lives. In the midst of loneliness, anxiety, addiction, and uncertainty - people are looking for an answer. But, the nature of sin makes so that their natural inclinations are to look to solutions that are no solutions at all. They repeat the cycles of self-sabotage because they don’t know that returning to that well will bring about their demise. Someone needs to tell them: “Look right!”
“Look over here - look to Christ!”
Who will be voice in our community and our region that there is a better place to look? Who will proclaim and herald and announce the name of Jesus? Who will share the gospel with someone who is at their wits’ end?
If you truly believe that you have life-saving news, then share it with those who need it in 2026!
- Josh Light
We did not rent a car while we were there. In fact, we never rode in a car, period! Not a taxi or an Uber. We took public transit everywhere, and of course, that meant that we also did a lot of walking!
As you probably know, they drive on the wrong side of the road over there in the United
Kingdom. Which, again, we didn’t drive so there was no driving curve to learn. But, we walked a ton in the city and that meant crossing hundreds of London city streets. Like all of you, I have spent the entirety of my 43 years on this earth looking left first before I crossed a street. How many times have you told your children: “Look left, then right, and then left again, and then you can cross the street.”? Looking left is all I’ve ever done. It’s my natural bent. All my life, my most immediate danger was to my left.
Now, to be fair, the English know they are doing it wrong, because they are aware that everyone who visits their country is instinctively looking left first when crossing a street. And the reason that I know that is that if you look down at the pavement at every crosswalk you will see - painted on the street in bold, all capital letters - “LOOK RIGHT”. It is there to give every foreigner a clear word that could save their life.
At every crosswalk, you will be reminded: “your natural instincts will kill you. So, look right.” Truthfully, the world around us is looking for something that will bring meaning or fulfillment to their lives. In the midst of loneliness, anxiety, addiction, and uncertainty - people are looking for an answer. But, the nature of sin makes so that their natural inclinations are to look to solutions that are no solutions at all. They repeat the cycles of self-sabotage because they don’t know that returning to that well will bring about their demise. Someone needs to tell them: “Look right!”
“Look over here - look to Christ!”
Who will be voice in our community and our region that there is a better place to look? Who will proclaim and herald and announce the name of Jesus? Who will share the gospel with someone who is at their wits’ end?
If you truly believe that you have life-saving news, then share it with those who need it in 2026!
- Josh Light
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