Drive It Like It's Stolen

I was reading a friend's blog yesterday and I'm pretty sure you can identify with him, because I sure did. He is struggling in his walk with God, it's hard for him to pray, get into the Word, even go to church. He knows what he's supposed to do and he wants to do it, but he is very depressed about his walk with God right now.

For the first 2 months the Mazda RX-8 was out, I was the top RX-8 salesman in Texas, number 4 in the United States. I understand RX-8's. Do you know that the manual transmission model has 6 gears and you shift at 9,000 RPM? You are doing between 40-50 mph in 1st gear alone! I had one up to 120 mph in 3rd gear on HWY 290 one time, and there were 3 more gears to go! The RX-8 was designed to be driven like that. If you drive it like a granny car, it will end up not performing well at all. It's designed to be driven fast.

We are not designed to have Jesus as part of our lives. We are designed for Jesus to be our life. Big difference! (Deut. 30:47) If we keep Jesus as a part of our life - then our life is in granny mode and we will never get to the performance we are designed for, but when Jesus becomes our life - well then we're shifting at 9000 rpm.