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Give me a load to pull, and ‘ll start thinking of what it will take to get it there.  How many days will it take?  How much fuel?  What roads I’ll have to use.  But this information can be gained.  And I come to have confidence that the load will arrive as planned.  That is, if nothing unseen stops me.  So I hook the load and start off with a freedom of conscience and no worries other than the immediate concerns of traffic and such.

But what if I hooked a load with a half tank of fuel, and was told to take that load 3000 miles.  I would expect that there would be a fuel stop somewhere.  But what if they expected me to provide the money to buy the fuel?  Let’s see:  200 gallons at 4.00/gal, and 7 MPG.  Um, can I talk to someone about this?  The load is going to go a certain distance then it’s gonna just stay at that certain distance.

Most people approach God like this.  They think they have been asked to be “good” and perfect in everything they do in order to please the Holy Lord of Life.  But just like that load I was asked to haul, someone else provides the money for the fuel.  Someone else provides the truck, trailer, load, seatbelt, radio, and everything but my body and mind.  In the case of God, however, He even provides the body and mind for the trip He demands from us.

If you want to treat God as a distant person who is only a task master, demanding certain things you can’t do, then fine.  But you alone suffer under the burden He has not asked you to haul.

By His Grace.