Repentance: It's a good thing.

Heading the other direction is good.

I’m riding through Texas as a write, so it’s no surprise that I just passed a load of cattle. Looking through the openings in the cattle trailer, it seems the beasts are calm. Are cows too dumb to worry, or are they modeling a trait that I should emulate? I mean, you’ve got to figure that the critters aren’t on an educational field trip. It’s likely that the next time they’ll be on the road, they’ll be in a refrigerated truck. I suppose it’s possible that they may be headed to a restaurant near you. God gave you and me more sense than those burgers on the hoof, contented rolling toward a meeting with the butcher. “Where am going?” is a question that each of us needs to ask him/herself from time to time. Proverbs 14:12 indicates that it is possible to be on a path that seems fine, but ends very badly.   There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death From the prosperous farmer in Jesus' parable, to Richard Corey, to people we know, there are folk all around us who are on a trip that isn’t going to end well. We tend to paint the word “repent” in negative hues. "Preachers who preach repentance are just trying to ruin our fun." But repentance basically means to turn around, and if you are headed down a road like my bovine fellow travelers, turning around is a really good idea.   It's STTA (Something To Think About).