I just returned from a week and a half on the road. Home to Fresno to Salt Lake City to Fresno to Monterey and then back home.
I never went off-road. All freeway or street driving. But my car is filthy. Outside in particular but inside as well. Even though I try to keep the interior neat, the film builds up on the windows and dirt gets tracked onto the floor mats.
Then there are the bugs. The come from every which way, make their imprint, and stick.
Life is like that, isn’t it? Even with just normal, everyday living it doesn’t take long for the grime of life to stick to us: the negativity, cynicism, temptations, others’ bad choices, etc. etc, etc.
And it’s not like we went off-road or put ourselves in iffy situations or had to maneuver around major obstacles. We were just navigating the roads we needed to for our daily living.
But just like our cars, we need to get that grime and those bugs off as soon as we can; otherwise, we might view ourselves incorrectly, find the filth harder to remove, and feel ourselves pulled down by it all.
The answer? And it’s always the answer. God’s Word and prayer.
The sooner we immerse ourselves back into His promises, the sooner we can start cleaning off the discouragement that Satan dishes out.
The sooner we start talking with God, the sooner we can stop listening to Satan’s lies.
Life — just normal, everyday life — without the big stuff, can wear us down and take it’s toll. But when we remind ourselves of who we are and whose we are, the cleansing process begins again.
I never went off-road. All freeway or street driving. But my car is filthy. Outside in particular but inside as well. Even though I try to keep the interior neat, the film builds up on the windows and dirt gets tracked onto the floor mats.
Then there are the bugs. The come from every which way, make their imprint, and stick.
Life is like that, isn’t it? Even with just normal, everyday living it doesn’t take long for the grime of life to stick to us: the negativity, cynicism, temptations, others’ bad choices, etc. etc, etc.
And it’s not like we went off-road or put ourselves in iffy situations or had to maneuver around major obstacles. We were just navigating the roads we needed to for our daily living.
But just like our cars, we need to get that grime and those bugs off as soon as we can; otherwise, we might view ourselves incorrectly, find the filth harder to remove, and feel ourselves pulled down by it all.
The answer? And it’s always the answer. God’s Word and prayer.
The sooner we immerse ourselves back into His promises, the sooner we can start cleaning off the discouragement that Satan dishes out.
The sooner we start talking with God, the sooner we can stop listening to Satan’s lies.
Life — just normal, everyday life — without the big stuff, can wear us down and take it’s toll. But when we remind ourselves of who we are and whose we are, the cleansing process begins again.
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