Food, College Football, and Cars...

Being Southern, we're always finding a way to relate most of life to about three things:  Food, College Football, and Cars… 

Consider the story below…

Your car has hundreds of parts that move and hundreds of parts that don’t move.  If you choose to, you could individually check, replace, maintain and clean every single part of your car all day long and never use your car to go anywhere.  When someone calls, you’re excuse is, “I’m too busy __________ my car.”, “I would but I’ve got too much __________ going on with my car.”, “If only I didn’t have to __________ my car, I would help you…”

 You die. 

God’s first question is, “How did you use your car and where did you go with it?”  You regrettably answer, “Nowhere.  I spent all of my time focused on maintaining the parts but never actually used it.”  God sighs and then responds, “My child, I had so many good things waiting for you if you would have just used your car to obtain those good things.  And even though the road may have had a few rough spots – even though you may have experienced some breakdowns while using your car – even though the storms of life may have forced you to pull over and ask for my guidance - even though your car may have not been spotless or impressed everybody you met; those “good things” I had waiting for you would have made your journey so much more enjoyable.  I gave you a car to use and enjoy, it wasn’t given to you as a curse or burden…”         

Let’s look at the story again.  Your “life” has hundreds of parts that move and hundreds of parts that don’t move….  Get my drift? 

Now go back and read the story again and replace the word “car” with the word “life”.   

Are you using your life or just maintaining it?