Where is your New Car?
Is your relationship with Jesus making a difference in your everyday life or are you just trudging along waiting for that Glorious Day when you will see Him face to face?
5:10 If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms (forgiven of our sins) with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we’re at our best (washed clean, set right with God), just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life! 11 Now that we have actually received this amazing friendship with God, we are no longer content to simply say it in plodding prose (walking expressionless and slowly with heavy steps). We sing and shout our praises to God through Jesus, the Messiah!
Rom 5:10-11 (MSG+)
Don’t get me wrong I am so looking forward to that Wonderful Day and I can’t wait, but Paul is talking about living life to it’s fullest in our current existence, NOW!
Let’s say your father surprises you with a brand new car—the car of your dreams. Your first reaction is probably disbelief. Maybe it is something you have been thinking and praying about for a long time. You don’t deserve it, so why would you get it? But now you have it. Your dream has come true. So what are you going to do with it?
Are you going to exuberantly invite him to go for a ride, or are you going to cautiously pull a cover over your beautiful new car, respectfully thanking your father as you remind him of all the reasons why you don’t deserve it? You’re so afraid of ruining your new car that you’ll just leave it there unused.
Have you chosen to just put a cover over your relationship with Jesus while life passes you by? Is your head hanging down while you somberly wait for that Glorious Day to arrive? Are you so afraid of making a mistake that you don’t want to even try and step out in faith?
OR have you grabbed the keys, jumped into your New Life, pulled out the Manual (your Bible) eagerly searching to see and experience all that there is here for you NOW?
5:17 If death got the upper hand through one man’s (Adam’s) wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, sovereign life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides?
Rom 5:17 (MSG+)
You have a choice. You can get into the relationship you have chosen with Jesus now, letting Him navigate or you can continue to sit there and just wait for your journey here on earth to come to an end.
Don’t you think it’s time to crack open the Manual and get into your New Life with Jesus? Put the key in the ignition and start that engine. Put the car in gear and with both hands firmly on the wheel, step out in faith and accelerate into your new journey!
The ride through life is going to be scary at times, and there will definitely be bumps and turns in the road ahead, but with your Manual in hand and Jesus as your Navigator you will never be steered wrong.
He’s just waiting for you to buckle up because the ride is going to be AWESOME!!!
