“…you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God…” Romans 6:22

The other day Katie told me she had some trouble getting home from work. Apparently her car started to shake and make strange noises. So…she did what any woman would do. She stomped on the gas and managed to get it home where it now sets! I don’t understand the problem? When I went out to the garage to look, it looked the same to me, as it ever did! And still does! Stupid car!

Going to the car with the key, I inserted, turned it and the car started. It was running rough though, and right there on the dash were the lighted inconvenient words…”Check Engine Soon!’ Lifting the hood, I did just that… and it looked the same to me as it ever did! So I don’t understand! But I KNOW that what I HAVE, sitting in it’s own private little room I call the garage, is a 4000 lb. paper weight! This was NOT what I intended when I got it!  (I say ‘I’ because when it’s broken…it’s mine) 

Obviously, how a car looks has NOTHING to do with how it RUNS! And so it is when it comes to my life. Yesterday I was sitting in a doctor’s office as the nurse was asking me questions… “Age?” “65,” I replied. “WOW, you look GOOD for your age!” My confused thoughts went to my ‘paper weight’ like car!  “Then why am I sitting HERE!”

For the car to get fixed I have to get it to a car fixer! That means it either has to be driven, or towed! If I take the cheapest route, I’ll drive it there slowly and take all the back roads. The BIG and theoretical question then becomes one which can only be exercised through FAITH! “Will it MAKE it!” Now back to my life!

There are days I’d just as soon forget. Days when I feel like a loser, a sinner, undeserving and just plain bad about myself! It is that precise feeling which becomes the indicator of the state of my inner soul. At times it flashes unmercifully, “Check Engine Soon!” It is then…as the thought rises in me, “Stupid K.C.,” that my Savior comes to my rescue with today’s Bible verse…“you have been set free from sin.” “NO CONDEMNATION!”

So I have a duty today. Well…two! 1 is to get my car to my mechanic. The other is to get my soul to his mechanic! BOTH tasks involve a work on my part. And until I do MY part, both my car, AND my soul, will simply sit in their broken states, in their own little private rooms. And even though they may be ‘lookin good,’ until I exercise faith, they’ll stay in there…broken and weighty! 

I think that the DIFFERENCE between the car and me is this.  God has PROMISED that “I” am going to make it because… I BELONG to HIM!!  So today I am going to DO something about this weighty matter!  So…here I come, Lord!!!  And I’m stompin on the gas!!!        Beep beep!