I Drove Right By

Have you ever done that? Before the days of GPS, at least a couple times I’ve been driving along, looking for a certain business and had to turn back because I drove right by the place. The sign was large. The claim,“You can’t miss it,” had it been made, would have been true. 

But miss it I did.

It's the same with the fact that, “The glory of God is us fully alive.”

It’s a message that's written all through Scripture.

How do we miss it?

Reality is, we’ve had help. We've been purposely distracted. Like kids fighting in the back seat, our concentration has been divided. In the same manner when we read the Bible satan is there to distract us. his main task in life is to block us from finding life.

. God offers to make us fully alive.

. satan has come to steal, kill and destroy, to maim and mangle and cripple.

It's takes steely concentration to grasp the former and avoid the latter.

Have you ever heard of original sin? Of course you have. The problem with that concept is that before sin there was original glory. Before hate, love was here first.

Jesus didn’t come to earth to bring us to glory.

Jesus came to restore us to glory.

Jesus came to take our shame and bring us safely home to the greatest love in the universe.

Don’t miss this opportunity. You may not get the chance to turn around and try again. 

The Garmin Girl Affair

I’ve fallen for the GPS girl.

Unlike my wife, GPS woman caters to my weaknesses.

Unlike my wife, GPS woman’s tone of voice tells me that she is attracted to my incompetence.

Unlike my wife, GPS woman doesn’t care if she has to re calibrate, or calculate or whatever it is she says when I make her start over.

Unlike my wife, GPS woman doesn’t care if I talk to someone else while she is talking to me.

Unlike my wife, GPS woman has no unattainable expectations of me.

Unlike my wife, GPS woman is rarely wrong and in fact even when she seems wrong it’s really just a misunderstanding and lack of patience on my part. Actually, that's the same as my wife but - whatever . . .

Unlike my wife, GPS woman doesn’t talk unless I want her to talk. Sometimes even when I want her to talk, she won’t say anything - ANYTHING - that isn’t absolutely necessary.

Unlike my wife, GPS woman gets turned on just with the twitch of my finger. I don’t have to spend the whole day trying to be nice.

Unlike my wife, GPS woman seeks only to please me and asks for nothing that an immature man can’t deliver.

I’m sure that she’s really busy but I’m going to go and live with GPS woman as soon as I can figure out how to get a ride to her satelli . .

Ouch!

Unlike my wife, GPS woman doesn’t look over my shoulder while I’m typing.