Wild Ride

At some point in your life you’ve gotten into a car when someone else was driving.  Have you ever done so and didn’t really know the driver and how he drove?  Then, as you’ve ridden as a passenger in the car, you’ve found that maybe the decision not to drive yourself was a poor decision?  You know the kind of ride that I’m talking about, one where you are gripping the handle at the top of the door frame or your arm rest because the driver forgot that you weren’t in a NASCAR race.  Yet, when you first got into the car you had total trust in the driver, didn’t you?  If not, you wouldn’t have gotten in that car, right?

So, we as believers in Christ are asked to trust in Him as passengers in the car of life.  We are told to give Him complete control of our lives and we shouldn’t worry.  Yet, there are times when we start to worry because it seems like His driving is getting a little erratic.  Maybe things in our lives are speeding by us too quickly.  Maybe we feel like we’ve taken a wrong direction and are heading for a dead end.  Yet, through it all, we still have to trust in Him, right?

Today I just wanted to impress upon you the fact that we are in that car with Jesus as the driver.  We don’t have the controls on our side of the car like those student driver instructors do.  We can’t just grab the wheel when we want to or hit the brakes.  We have to have total faith in Him and the direction that He is taking our lives.  It’s not going to be an easy thing to do, giving up that control.  Yet if we do allow Jesus to take the wheel, then we’ll find that we’re at our final destination…Heaven along with all the other passengers that Jesus has brought with Him.