S04E092, When Stubbornness Stops A Train, Andy B 2 Minute Video

Someone tried to steal some signalling cable for train lines in the UK along an 8 mile stretch of railway. This created a huge problem as trains were cancelled all together, or simply delayed by 2 hours or more. As you moved away from the centre of where the problem began, those issues simply grew, exponentially!

At one train station one particular man had finally boarded a train, but became so angry when asked to get off that the police had to be called. The problem wasn’t one of him being unfairly targeted, but simply that he was standing where the train guard needed to be able to be. No train guard, no train!

The staff had similar altercations with people who simply became abusive at them for the problems with the train being overcrowded, delayed or cancelled. People who had reserved seats became enraged that they couldn’t sit down at ‘their seats’. But, when a train is that overcrowded, you’re fortunate to even be on the train at all. Seat reservations were removed by the train company until the problem had been resolved.

We’re not always very good at accepting things, and it’s so simple and easy to allow a sense of entitlement to grow, resulting in us shouting abuse at staff members simply trying to do the best they can, in an impossibly difficult situation that wasn’t of their making.

Pride goes before a fall – which is why pride is such a terrible evil in this world; arrogance simply makes people not want to come near you and creates isolation, and a lack of humans wanting to come near you; stubbornness prevents you from enjoying life, as you hold on, desperately, on to what you perceive as yours.

As followers of Jesus, we’re only too aware that this life is very temporary, and that we leave this world exactly as we entered it -with nothing but the memories of a life lived, for others to enjoy…or not!

So, always be willing to surrender your seat – whether to someone older, someone pregnant, someone physically struggling with more shopping than they can carry: let’s be kind to one another, and please let’s try and ditch the pride, arrogance, selfishness and stubbornness – can you imagine how much better the world would be if those attitudes and lifestyles disappeared?

Just a thought…

Andy B

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