Clean Car. Clean Life?

Today i finished washing my car. I'd put a picture up... but there are some hindrances in that area.
Anyways so my car was so dirty that i couldn't even get all the dirt and grossness off in one wash and even still there is some left. But it looks soooo freaking pretty right now, all shiny and black. I even put new plates on it. So in the process of this hardcore cleaning i thought about when the last time i washed my car was. hmmm it was when i got home from WW last year. Yep my car went a full year without being washed. why is that? It took me a while to remember why, but then i did.

Two days after washing every inch of it last year i was driving into Austin when it started raining. Not just any rain but it poured rain for almost 2 months. but within that first week of rain it flooded. And i was driving to Austin everyday that week. I even remember driving home one afternoon and being so excited to get out of traffic when it then started raining cats and dogs. It was raining so hard that i had to slow down to 40 mph on I35 and i was the fastest one out there. Then once the rain eased up i thought it would be a pretty smooth ride, but no. The interstate had flooded. yep flooded. It took over 2 lanes with around a foot of water. Thats a lot of water when you're traveling at a speed of 70 mph.

So the reasoning behind me not washing it was that i was so angry with the rain coating my shiny clean car in mud that i decided not to wash it until the rain stopped. So eventually once the rain did stop a few weeks went by then because of no having rain we had a drought. So it eventually turned into months and then here we are a year later and i finally washed it.

But the whole point of me saying all of this is that i waited so long to do a simple task that it became this huge messy monster that was almost impossible to clean up. Thats how i've been with a lot of things lately. I get so used to the way things are and i get comfortable with them all the time knowing that they won't be there much longer. And now that the time has finally come for a change i'm not ready. i am unprepared.
This can apply spiritually too. We can hide from God. Pull away from His touch. Tune out His voice. Look away from His glory. Ignore His presence. But only to a certain extent. Because with out Him we are nothing. God is everything on me, inside me, around me... I find my identity in God.



I was looking through some papers today and i found this song. Its funny how i found it after just feeling every emotion written in it.


Things of this world cannot satisfy
The taste i long for is much deeper
A love that comes to me with comfort
An embrace with the breeze

Take hold of me... take everything
I'm giving it all to you
Take all of me... you're all i need
You're something that can't be refused

Tomorrow will never be the same again
the world will see just where i stand, who i am
I am a child of Christ, I am a child of God
I am a child of Christ, longing for more

I want to sing, I want to dance for everything you've done
We come together singing, we will sing together as one

All need to hear from this, your generation of love.