Running on Low

Funny story that wasn’t so funny at the time to my husband. The gas gauge on my car wasn’t working so we had to be careful to make sure we kept the tank full. We could put 300 miles on one tank then I knew we needed to fill up.

As we were coming home from Church one Sunday we ran out of gas. We were right by a parking lot so we knew we just had to get the car from the street to the lot.

Not as easy as it looked. I was recovering from a hysterectomy and my daughter that was with us had heels on so she wouldn’t be much help either. So my husband had to get our car in that parking lot. Oh yeah did I mention it was a Chevy Lumina.

Since most men don’t like to ask for help I don’t even remember if I suggested it. So I got behind the wheel while he pushed. He did just fine as I knew he would. We can do all things through Christ who gives us strength. The hardest part was pushing it into the driveway of the lot since it was a little hill. With the car in the lot now he goes to get the gas. What a blessing it was to have to stations right there on that corner.

He walks across the street to the gas station and found the man that should of been behind the counter was standing right there. He said that he got himself locked out of his cubby hole. He was a bigger man and the only way he could get in was to crawl through this window but he didn’t fit. My husband offered to climb through the window and let the man in. He gets the man back inside borrows a gas can and the car is moving again. It was too funny. The only one not laughing was my husband. I am so thankful that my God supplies my every need.

That is what happens to us a Christian’s. We run out of gas spiritually. My car was totally out of gas so it just stopped running. The same thing will happen to us if we don’t renew our mind with the Word. 

If we need healing in our body or money in our pocket but we wait until we are sick or broke then try to renew our minds it doesn’t work. We need to already have it in our heart so if we are sick or broke the Word in us will just rise up and take care of the situation.

I am sometimes lazy about reading the Word but I watch a lot of Christian TV and listen to Christian music. It doesn’t matter how you get the Word you just need to get it.

The Word works. We just need to keep our tanks full.