Dory had started back to McKenzie when she noticed a warning light on her dashboard. It had come on – and gone off – and come back on several times before, but this time was different. It was blinking. A sense of dread and foreboding pulsed with every blink. I asked the guys at the men’s ministry meeting their advice. It could be nothing or it could be that the engine is about to lock up and turn into a giant mass of molten metal. (Ok, maybe I exaggerated just a little, but the bad possibilities seemed limitless!) One suggestion, giving a nod to our computer friends, was to turn it off and see if it would reset. Crazy but true, a lot of electronic stuff will get fixated after a while. They just need to be turned off so everything can reset and start over.
Our lives can get that way sometimes. We can get so busy, so fixated, that we can’t see or deal with anything else. The blinders go on and our focus narrows into a laser-like beam. In the meantime, life goes on around us.
The same goes for our spiritual lives as well. When we sin, we can feel overwhelmed and defeated. Eventually that’s all we think about. We worry about it until our sin becomes bigger than God. That should not happen because it’s just not true. Way back in the Old Testament, the writer of Lamentations tells us the “the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is (His) faithfulness.” Jesus promises to forgive our sins when we confess them. Tomorrow morning, He has a new load of grace and mercy to pour out on us. We didn’t “use it all up” yesterday. We can rejoice in the fact that His love never ceases. (Just a reminder: that’s not a license to sin and live it up wild! We are still responsible for our behavior!)
Now that’s good news! I just wish I could say that Dory’s car was new every day!
Until our next togethering,
love ya,
Bret
