I Wish I Was More Like My Car

Ann and I bought a new car last month.   It is a 2019 Hyundai Tucson.   One of the features the car has is that it helps you stay in your lane of the road.   When the car drifts toward the center line or toward the shoulder, this feature will literally help keep the car in your lane by gently helping the steering wheel go the correct way.   When you drift out of your lane, this feature  will prompt a beeping sound.  

This feature is not one that we chose when we bought the car.   It simply was a part of the package.   To be perfectly honest, I don’t need it when I am driving with Ann by my side because she does a pretty good job of making sure I stay on the road… in my lane… and at a safe speed. 

I wish I was more like my car.   I  wish this feature on our car that keeps you in the right lane without veering left or right was more innate inside me.   Sometimes, I drift off the path that God wants me to travel.    Sometimes, I get distracted and go on another path instead of the path God desires me to follow.     There are times that I can say as Psalm 119:176 puts it:  “I have strayed like a lost sheep.”       

How good it is to know that when I stray like a lost sheep that there is  a “Good Shepherd” who knows my name and seeks me out.       How glad I am that this “Good Shepherd” loves me not because I always stay on the “straight and narrow”, but because I am his child.   Guess what?   That same “Good Shepherd” loves you too.    Give me a call or send me a message and I will take you for a ride in my new car.   Have a joy-filled week.-  Pastor Randy Wall

Prayer:   O God, whose son Jesus Christ is the Good Shepherd:   forgive us for the many times we stray from the life you have given us.   Thank you for your love that seeks us out like a shepherd seeking a wandering sheep;  through Jesus Christ our Lord.   Amen.