~ Safety Concerns or Society Concerns. ~
Many people are so Concerned about what 'Other People' say about them that they do Silly things, and they don't even realise the Dangers of what they do.
The road we live on is a route that children use on their way to school, and some of them cycle to school on their bikes.
Quite a few times I've seen a group of 3-4 children cycling passed, and they've All got 'cycle helmets'.
That would seem like the children are using their own 'Sense' and are Concerned about their 'Safety', so therefore Protecting their heads.
The Problem though is that even though they have All got helmets, 'Non' of them actually wear them. They All cycle passed with their helmets dangling off their handle bars.
They are more Concerned about what 'Other People' might say about them, than what they are about their own 'Safety'.
They don't wear their helmets because they know that 'Other People' can be very nasty about what they say, and they Wrongly focus on that.
I've got personal Experience of this from when I used to cycle to school. Other children would Call me nasty names and take the mickey out of me for wearing a helmet. Even Grown Adults have Laughed and Sniggered at me for wearing a helmet.
When I used to cycle to school, helmets had only just started being worn, and they were Nothing like the Stylish cycle helmets of today.
The helmet I had looked more like a deformed pudding basin than a helmet.
They were Horrible looking helmets, and what made it worse is that mine was Luminous Green. I tried to make it look better with the transfer kit that came with it, but they were Bright Orange, so it made it worse.
And to top it all off, the helmet was called a 'Skid Lid'.
I was an Easy target for Name Calling by 'Other People'.
But even though the helmet was Horrible looking and quite Uncomfortable, and even though people Called me Nasty Names, I used to wear the cycle helmet 'Every' time I cycled to school.
The 'Reason' why I wore it, was because I 'Fully Understood' the 'Dangers' of Not wearing it.
When I was about 8 years old, I used to Race Motorbikes. It was called Grasstrack Racing, and basically it was a Club Style racing event where the officials would hire a farmers field and set up a Race Track using wooden pegs to mark out an oval circuit. We would then race around it 4 laps at a time.
We also occasionally Raced on Speedway Tracks, which is very similar but on a Fixed Gravel Race Track.
To be able to race, we had to wear 'Safety Gear' which included a Helmet.
At one of the races I saw a Very Clear Example of why it's so Important to wear a helmet. One of the riders fell off his bike, and the rider behind him couldn't stop in time and road straight over him. He was taken to hospital and had very bad cuts and bruises, but Thankfully he was ok.
But his 'Helmet' was used by the officials to show everyone why we Need to wear a helmet.
His helmet had a black 'Tyre Mark' right across the front of the helmet.
When the other rider had accidentally road over him, the back wheel of his bike had drove straight across his head.
The doctors said if he hadn't been wearing a helmet, he would have been dead.
The Helmet 'Saved His Life'.
So when people used to Call me 'Childish' names for wearing my cycle helmet, even though it wasn't nice being called nasty names, I still wore the helmet, because I Understood the 'Importance' of it.
One day when I was cycling to high school with another person, he was about 20 feet in front of me, and he went to hop up a curb, but he caught his wheel and fell off his bike.
It seemed to happen it slow motion as I saw him falling to the floor, and his Head 'Crashed' hard into the tarmac.
I rushed to him as it looked like he was going to be badly injured. I carefully helped him up and he was a bit dazed, but Thankfully he was ok.
He took his 'Helmet' off and when we checked it, it had a huge Crack right the way through the helmet.
We both Knew that if he had Not have been wearing the Helmet, he would have had serious Head Injuries, and possibly even be dead.
So even though 'Other People' used to Call us names, we Knew that our 'Safety' was 'More Important'.
Those people who used to Call us names, are Not even in our Lives anymore, but we have Still got our 'Lives'.
Far Too Many people are so Concerned about what 'Other People' say about them, that they Lose sight of what is Truly Important.
It Doesn't matter what 'Other People' say about You.
All that matters is what Jesus says about You, and He Loves You.
Too many people are 'Resisting' making a Full Commitment to Jesus, because they are Concerned about what 'Other People' will say.
I Learned many years ago that if 'Other People' call me for Following Jesus, then they are Not worth bothering about.
If people have got a problem with me being who God Created me to be, then I Don't want people like that in my Life.
Before I Learned the Importance of Following Jesus, I 'Wasted' too many years of my Life trying to 'Please People' and trying to 'Fit In' with them. It led to me Wrongly doing Stupid things to try to get people to 'Like Me'.
And worse of all, I 'Wasted' far too much of my Life 'Resisting' making a Full Commitment to Jesus.
But the Truth is, those people who I was trying to 'Please', are Not in my Life anymore, and Never will be.
But Jesus is 'With Me Always'.
I Now Understand what is Truly Important.
Just as a Helmet 'Protects & Saves' our Physical Lives,
Jesus 'Protects & Saves' our Souls.
And there's Nothing more Important than that.
I just wish I knew back then what I know Now, and I wish I had made
my Full Commitment to Jesus a Lot sooner than I did.
I could have been Free and Enjoying the
True Meaning of Life a Lot Sooner.
Please Don't make the same Mistake I made.
Journeying with Jesus 