Stay Full
John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
For some reason I have this distaste for having to stop and get gas, especially if I’m coming home after a long day of work and am just looking forward to consuming the wonderful meal Kim has prepared for me. If I can sort of turn my head and justify that the needle is indeed still on the “E” mark, I feel that filling up can just wait till tomorrow. The problem is, though, that the gauge isn’t always all that accurate, and I have proven this too many times by having to pull over to the side of the road after having run out gas within just a short ways of home. The good part is that I’m not usually all that far from home, but the bad part is that it doesn’t matter how close you are to home, being out of gas is being out of gas. You’re just not going any further until you take a walk for the gas you could have obtained by just pulling up to the station.
This same tendency is way too common among those that are traveling through life. While it is such a good feeling to be completely topped off and ready to go for the long haul, too often the fill up time is just passed up with an assumption that there’s enough there to last for another moment, day, week or year. The problem is that life’s gauges aren’t very accurate at all, and while it may seem that passing up that devotional time or coming together with other believers will be all right, oftentimes the tank runs out even when we may not be all that far from the source. Instead of pulling right in when access is so convenient, it may then require a bit of walking or working it out.
God says that we never have to get below the “Full” line– that we can remain filled and running over. He’s put a station on every corner with a special credit account funded by Him. Salvation, wholeness and fullness are ours today and every day. Why not just stay full rather than hover around “E”.
