You’re late. Anything that can go wrong has. You grab a cup of coffee and of course you spill some on yourself; but the one bright spot of the morning is you are wearing dark clothing and the coffee won’t show. You hop in the car. You give thanks that you’re not so late that you can blame the traffic. Then it happens. Click. Click. “No! Not today of all days! Not now!”
You pray, wait a few moments and try again. Click. Click. Who hasn’t heard the sound of a dead battery? The Florida sun is deadly on car batteries. It is so deadly that it is usually without warning–not a slow dragging and then it starts. It just goes from starting to dead.
Not to be offensive, but some of you who are reading this have dead batteries. You are just sitting there turning the key and the only sound you hear is click, click. The intensity of life, like the Florida sun has drained your battery. The answer to a dead battery is a jump start. Another car’s battery is connected to ours and voila we are up and running until we can get the battery replaced.
When you need a jump start for your car, you don’t hesitate to ask for help because getting to where you are going is much more important than swallowing your pride and asking for help. Who in their right mind will sit in their car and click, click for hours at a time? No, you get out of your car and seek help.
Why is it when our spiritual battery is drained we just sit and click, click? Is it because where we’re going isn’t important? Is it because we don’t want anyone to know we have a dead battery? Why is getting to an appointment more important than doing God’s appointment?
I don’t know about you, but it is never a bother for someone to ask me to jump start their car. It’s just what good neighbors do. It’s never a bother for someone to ask for a spiritual jump start; it’s just what we do. As a matter of fact it’s a joy to offer a jump start to someone.
Make sure you have people in your life who you can call on when the spiritual battery is dead. Make the call, it’s not a bother. It’s a pleasure to jump start someone. If you don’t ask, you will miss your appointment.
