I’m in the heavy duty taxi driving season of mamahood. No matter how simple we try to keep our calendar as a family, it seems the engine stays running.
I think that’s one of the reasons why this C.S. Lewis quote touches me so:
“God made us; invented us as a man invents an engine.
A car is made to run on gasoline,
and it would not run properly on anything else.
Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn,
or the food our spirits were designed to feed on.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself,
because it is not there. There is no such thing.” C.S. Lewis
My car happens to run on diesel fuel. I’ve been told if I were to put any other fuel in the tank that really bad things could happen. Its engine is designed for diesel only.
Just as my little red taxi bug burns through the diesel, so the Holy Spirit fans the flame in me. And when I run on any other source for energy than my Jesus, I burn out even faster than my little Volkswagen tank.
He is the food my spirit was designed to feed on. God won’t provide a lasting, deep down happiness and peace apart from Himself, because there’s no such thing.
How different would our lives be if we surrendered to Him as our main source of energy and strength every day?
The better question might be:
How different would the lives around us be?
Over-taxied Mom…don’t travel another mile without abiding in Christ, depending on Him, letting Him lead in the right direction. Our hearts were designed for devotion to Him.
“For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God…for God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.” 2 Timothy 1:6
“In Him we live and move and have our being…for we are His offspring.” Acts 17:28
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