So when we went to NYC to have my cancer surgery, friends of ours (George and Jamie) said, “Just leave your car at our house and save on all that parking cost, we will take you to the airport and you can just leave your car with us while you are gone.”
Little did we know by leaving our car there with George and Jamie, we would return to a detailed car (which was far from that when we left). As we picked up our now super clean car, Jamie says, “when your car is clean, it just runs better.” Clean cars are nice but they went far beyond just cleaning our car – oil change, new motor mounts, and a host of other things that we are still finding out as we travel down the road. And they told us nothing of what they did, we are just acknowledging things over and over again that are working on our old Corolla that were not working before or needed attention.
A few days ago, we found ourselves in a rain storm as we were traveling in that detailed old Corolla and noticed – “Hey, the windshield wipers are shedding the water off of the window – not like that since the day we bought it 8 years ago – they even changed the windshield wipers!”
What George and Jamie did to our car is like a picture of what Christ does for us. When we dropped our car off at George and Jamie’s house, we felt that it would be safe there and watched over while we were gone – no idea of all that they would do while it was in their temporary possession. So it is with our Lord Jesus. We surrender our life to Him thinking, He will watch over us and protect us. Never did we realize when we called on His name that He would fix any and everything in our lives while we remained apart from Him here on earth (meaning, the only closer to Him we can be, is in heaven one day). He not only prepares a place for us, but he removes every sin, gives us a new way of looking at life. He cleanse our souls up which changes even the look on our face (we smile more). He blesses us over and over again (Eph. 1:3) when all we thought was – “we will just give our lives to Him.”
Our Lord Jesus has been doing so much through the prayers of the saints, that we cannot even keep up on the symphony that He is playing through all of our lives. Our Lord is such a supplier of our every need, and here we were thinking would just drop off our life to Him when He saved us. Phil. 4:19 - But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
We have such a great debt of love to all like George and Jamie – we will spend all eternity giving thanks for everything He has done through the saints’ prayers and generosity. “Thank You Lord Jesus for all you are doing in our lives, and that we will be eternally grateful to you for those who faithfully (in His strength) watches over and supplies us with more than we would ever think our could say.” Much love to all who have been faithfully bearing our name before Jesus and His image before our eyes.
A side note of praise: It is now Tuesday morning, 6:40am and I just woke up to thanking our Lord Jesus for 4 weeks since surgery, the first night to sleep through without waking up in the middle of it, no pain med. since more than 24 hours, no bleeding and no gauze to cover the wound. Meredith returned yesterday (Monday) and we had Bethany and Kenny (and Chloe) over last night. Words are running ever so fast from these finger tips to the key board but falling way short of what I truly feel in my heart at this time. I just had to tell someone after I spoke to the Lord this morning, so I told my wife, and then on my computer it says, (you all know how this probably works but I don’t) – “Geoff is on line” (a dear friend and pastor) – I tap on the Skype button and was able to rejoice with Geoff for about a minute.
“O Lord Jesus, these years so far here on earth, how ever seemingly long or short they may be, are just a token of our love and gratitude to YOU.”
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