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I like to draw parallels to every day life and the things that surround me, it helps me to understand the scriptures and what is from the Lord. I believe that he has put things in front of us to help us to divide, to unravel the truths of his word. Not to confuse, but to teach us.
Today I want to talk about cars, yes you heard rightly. And believe it or not they go hand in hand with emotions and the spirit of fear.
Sounds confusing? Let me explain-
Picture if you will a car in your mind, nice and shining and new. The engine is “faithâ€, the steering wheel is the “wordâ€, and the wheels are the “Holy Spiritâ€. The gas in the tank is your “salvationâ€. The gas comes with the added advantage, you never have to pay for it, it is given freely, which when received never ends. And the paint that is nice and glossy and new is your emotions.
You know there are days when I can feel the Holy Spirit just flowing through every nerve and fibre of my being. And there are other days when I feel taxed, my prayers are dry, and I feel totally worn out. A little like our car that needs a good service. But unlike a car that once serviced can travel for many miles, my service schedule is a little up and down. The day after a major tune up, I can be running like a dog. And the next day be cruising in a Ferrari.
Emotions are a very dangerous thing when crossed with our faith. For when we try to cross them, the result gives way to works. You will be forever trying to polish a shine on the paint job that is really only a large patch of rust.
Like our car emotions being the paint work of the vehicle are subject to the weather and elements. What looks and feels good today will tomorrow be faded, sun cracked and worn.
My car that I am as a Christian man is not the car that would appeal to many if it was for sale on a used car lot. For my paint work is very faded, I have had quite a number of dents all over the car from life’s trials. People backing into me, and me hit things because I took my eyes off the road. Rust holes have appeared in many places, and some things have plainly just fallen off.
Would you want to buy this clunker?
If I told you regardless of what the outside of the car looks like, the engine has been regularly serviced, the brakes checked and some modifications have been done to improve the vehicles handling and performance, would you still buy this car that looks like a major clunker on the outside?
Properly not, hey!!!!
Well go talk to my mechanic, Jesus.
For when he sees my car, he does not see the dents, the rust holes and the faded paint. He sees a Ferrari. Why does he see a Ferrari? Because he knows the engine under the hood, he knows what condition it is in. For the heart of the car is its engine.
FAITH
So why is it we try so hard to make our paint work shine, when at the end of the day if you have a bad engine, the glossy paint will only look good while the car sits broken down on the side of the road, while you walk looking for help?
Emotions and the spirit of fear
In these closing days of grace, lets not get caught up into thinking we have to have a paint job and a body that has a mirror finish. We are all sinners; every one of us is a clunker of sorts. If you allow the mechanic to do his work, you will make it to your destination just fine. Maybe feeling a little beaten up from all the dents, but you will make it.
And our mechanic knows every make and model that was ever produced. For he even designed all the components of the car. And just like when we take our cars into be serviced in the real world, we trust the mechanics with what they do. This mechanic, our mechanic, Jesus, the greatest mechanic of them all, will get you home just fine.
You have gas in your tank, the wheels are turning, grab hold of the steering wheel for the engine is purring. Enjoy the ride and don’t forget to pick up some passengers along the way.
This is a picture of Paul/Aussie (My good side on display)
Be encouraged, I love you all
In his saving love / your fellow clunker / Paul
I agree, Sue! 
Thanks, bro. Paul! This rusty, dented, old cluncker needed to read this today.
God Bless you, bro. 
One of the best posts of the day - BUMP!!!!
Texas Sue, I have a verse for you, sister:
Proverbs 28:13-14
He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper,
But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion.
How blessed is the man who fears always,
But he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
It's the truth. The fear of a HOLY GOD is a good, good thing indeed.
Sad....
Remember, "love never fails".
Email: sweetbyandbyx2@yahoo.com
YES!!!
Love never fails, and Gods love is the greatest of all.
After you have trusted Jesus for your salvation, your only worry is to not lose FAITH in what JESUS did for you.
Faith and trust...that of a little child is what is EXPECTED from you that is your only part in your salvation.
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 5:1-21
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For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
Rom 4:14-16
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What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
And the way of peace have they not known:
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
W here is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Rom 3:9-27
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What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
Rom 9:30-32
