Junk Cars

So you've got a car. Is it the car you want? Maybe, maybe not. But it's the one you have, so make the most of it. You have your car and what do you do? You take care of it (well, some of us do, at least keep it mechanically sound). You are out there in the blazing sun washing and polishing your awesome car. You trade out the stock radio for a better one. You have good tires that you rotate and put that black stuff on. Maybe, there's even a little Yankee Candle air-freshener in there.

For many of us our car is at least partly a symbol of who we are. It's the thing that people see. It's probably the most expensive thing we have beside our house (though, this isn't always true). That car is like our life.

You've got your life, everyone alive has one. On the outside it may be perfect: not dents, no scratches. It's polished and clean. It's you, a sports car, a minivan, a pick-up, a luxury sedan, or a Jeep. It tells the world what you want them to know, or at least think, about you. As nice and well-kept and socially edifying as your car is it takes gasoline to run. Without gas the best car in the world is just pile of junk in the driveway. Without a fuel source, it is totally useless. Without gas that car cannot perform the only purpose it really has, to transport you. Without gas, we never get out of the driveway. We just sit there, being pretty.

Our life is the same. We can be wealthy, successful in our career, physically fit, but without our fuel, that is God, we are the useless pile of junk in the driveway. We are incapable of fulfilling the only purpose we have. What makes are car a car is the fuel and the engine, everything else is just fluff. What makes us "us" is our soul and God who fuels us, everything else is just fluff.

In the end, which do you prefer? Would you rather have a junk car with a full tank or luxury car that can't move? Is your heart concerned with getting where you want to be or sitting in the driveway hoping the neighbors notice how awesome you are?