Zoned Out...

Last night I was on my way home from a board meeting in the community. As I traveled along the familiar roads of downtown Howell I must admit that I kinda zoned... lost in thought, taking in the yellow lines. There was not much traffic out, the roads were wet with the light mist falling, and the street lights made a rather picturesque scene as they gleaned off the wet streets. When all of a sudden my left hand hit the turn signal and instinctively I began to move to the left into the center lane to turn! I was caught off guard because I genuinely had no conscious thought of turning... it was almost like an automatic reflex. I guess I really did have the auto pilot on! I think it must be an enhanced cruise control feature on the car.
This makes me think how we can sometimes just cruise through daily activities without much thought of what we're doing or how we're doing. How are you doing this morning? What are you doing? These are a couple of questions I must stop to ask myself in hopes of snapping back to reality at times. This can be where our spiritual enemy prepares a sneak attack; when we're zoned out from the reality of our thoughts and actions. If we're not careful we can slip into an automatic mode of our sinful nature (to include unhealthy habits). Only later to snap back and wonder how we could have done that!
My devotional this morning concerned the return of Christ and how as Christians we "ought to live 'soberly, right­eously, and godly' in the light of Christ’s certain return (Titus 2:12)." May we keep our focused on the reality of God's presence in our lives.