Arrived early morning after 35 hours of travelling from Australia and spent the day looking around the city. In the afternoon boarded a train for Dillenburg – 1 and half hours away. But halfway there an announcement was made and quite a number of people got off the train. I hadn’t paid any attention to the announcement because… 1. It was in German and I only have a limited understanding of that language. 2. I was tired and not very interested. 3. I still had 45 minutes of travel left so why worry now. But a few minutes later the conducter asked to see my ticket. She said… (in German, which I did understand)… “You’re going the wrong way”. I thought… How can that be so? But it was so… The train had split in two – literaly, at that last stop where everyone had got off. Yes the other half was on its way to Dillenburg. But the half I was on was going to Marburg. Completely in the opposite direction. So I had to get off, Turn around and “Go in the Right Direction”.
What a brilliant example and sermon illustration. We all have to stop… turn around… and Go in the right direction. Have you done that yet?