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Alive & On Time
Sara and I had a great vacation last week.
You’ll hear more about it in the months to come.
We visited the Creation Museum in Cincinnati, the Ark Exhibit in KY, and a few nights in Nashville.
Downtown Nashville was like a college frat party.
Not our scene.
But, we found things to do there.
The Andrew Jackson Mansion and Museum was good visit.
7th president.
Anyway, we got home Monday night.
The trip home was uneventful, just long.
Complicating things was the time zone changes.
Cincinnati is Eastern time.
We arrived the weekend of Daylight Savings Time.
So, 3 hours different.
Nashville is Central time, 2 hours.
Our body clocks were messed up.
We got up the usual time Monday morning, 6 am.
But that’s 4 am MP time.
We didn’t fly out till after 4. So we had all morning.
That’s when we visited the Andrew Jackson Mansion.
Flight took off just about on time, 3 and a half hours, we landed at 6:45 in PHX.
Our kids, in Glendale, kept Jack for us.
We had to go and pick him up.
Hugs and kisses abounded, that’s just the dogs.
They have 2.
Gassed up the car, don’t want to start up the mountain w/ anything less than a full tank.
We’re on the 101 heading for I-17 at 8:30.
But that’s 10:30 where we woke up that morning.
I-17 is a hard drive anytime.
It is especially hard at night, in the dark.
Then, tired from a day of travel made it harder.
They’ve started the big project.
Now just a lot of prep work, but several times down to 1 lane thru the switch backs.
That’s where the 2 new lanes are going to go.
Traffic merging.
Slow trucks and fast cars all trying to get into the same space.
They were working on the southbound side, too.
They had the big, bright construction lights up.
Even across the distance between north and south it was like driving into another car’s high beams.
My eyes were tired.
My contacts were drying out.
Things were blurry anyway.
And the other cars and truck on I-17 were the usual.
Trucks doing 25 mph in the right lane.
Cars doing 90 in the left.
All sorts in between and they were affecting what I could do.
The temptation is, I just want to get home.
Hit the gas, let’s go.
Too slow and you get run over.
Besides, that will put me back here well after my MP bedtime and I’m already a little too ready for bed.
Patience on I-17 is a rarity.
I could drive as fast as I want to drive.
But why?
I could drive 90 or 95.
My Yukon’s got some giddy-up.
A ticket at 85 or higher is a criminal act.
Not a simple speeding violation.
Jail time and a fine.
High speed thru the switchbacks, in the dark, slow semis and faster cars, not quite on my game as my reflexes are fatigued.
The chance of a serious accident.
If I drove fast all the time, big trouble is inevitable.
And that’s b/c my wife is sitting next to me.
I’d rather face a Trooper than her.
It’s bad enough watching out for everyone else.
Accidents happen all the time and innocent ppl get caught up in them.
Why would I increase the odds of something bad happening by driving too fast myself?
It’s tempting.
I want to get home!
Patience is something that I don’t have a lot of when I’m so tired.
Driving is one thing.
Sometimes we live our lives this way.
Life is hard enough, like driving I-17 on a typical day.
We can do pretty much anything we want to do.
But why would we do things that cause more trouble than we already have?
Million-dollar question.
When life is already hard, why do we do things that make it harder?
We can do these things.
But, why?
We get a little cranky, impatient, lose some self-control and let things fly.
We may get away w/ it for a little while, but, eventually, inevitably, we cause ourselves more trouble than it’s worth.
One of the benefits of the Christian Life, a life as a follower of Jesus, is access to the wisdom to know the best thing to do in a tough situation and the ability to do it.
When we are tired and tempted, the easiest course of action is often the one that brings the most trouble.
We need help from outside ourselves to do right.
Paul had just written in Colossians 2 that Jesus has all the wisdom and power and makes it available to us.
So, in light of that, what do we do w/ it?
Live Like Heaven
Since you have already died and been raided w/ Christ.
Done deal.
Past tense.
Saved.
Follower of Jesus.
Rec’d, believe in the name, all that He is.
This is not a how to be saved passage.
This is a how saved ppl can live passage.
One of the things we all value is the freedom God gives us to make choices, everyday, every moment, every situ choices.
We can do pretty much whatever we want to do.
There are consequences and ramifications.
Taking all that into account, we can do what we want to do.
What Paul is saying here is, what you really want to do is set your mind on the way you will live in heaven.
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