Josh Hunt tells about getting a used car. He said it had all the creature comforts of a fine luxury car: electronically adjustable seats, cruse control, power windows and lights. Everything worked beautifully. Everything except one thing: the gasoline gauge. This was not a problem. His mother-in-law (the former owner) explained that she simply reset the trip meter every time she filled up and then refilled every two hundred miles or so. He checked the gas mileage this car was getting--nearly 30 miles to the gallon--and concluded that this was way too conservative. He wasnt sure what the size of the gas tank was. He calculated that if it were a normal tank of 20 gallons, he should be able to go about 500 - 600 miles on a tank of gas. The actual number was 406. He found out one day as he was driving to El Paso--about an hour from his home--to preach on a Sunday morning. At precisely 406 miles it sputtered and came to a halt. Thankfully he had a cell phone. Hunt said as he sat waiting for his wife to pick him up so he could fill up the gas tank, he thought about the parallels between sitting beside the road with an empty gas tank and the need to get regular fill-ups of faith and strength from God. You may have a very fancy car. One with power windows and power seats and power locks, climate control so you just set the temperature and forget it, automatic on and off for your headlight, everything. But if the gas gauge doesn’t work and you run out of gas all those fancy creatures comforts mean nothing. You may have a lot going for you. You may be educated and articulate. You may be sharp. You may be smart. You may have a winning personality and a Colgate smile. God can use all these things. But without faith, and Jesus Christ, you and I are nothing. Whatever else you have going for you, if you do not have regular fill-ups of faith you are dead. You need to spend some time with the Lord Jesus. We must pull over and slow down enough that He can fill our hearts. THE EYES OF THE LORD SEARCH THE WHOLE EARTH IN ORDER TO STRENGTHEN THOSE WHOSE HEARTS ARE FULLY COMMITTED TO HIM. (1 Chronicles 6:9a NLT)
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:50:27 +0000
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