You don't have TIME

 I am cheating.

But just a little. 

This is a picture from Last Monday but I have been wanting to writing about it and it DID happen on a Monday...just not this Monday.

So I am cheating...but just a little. 

I ran out of gas. I know, I know. You are shocked. Which is OBVIOUSLY sarcasm because if you have known me for more than 12 seconds you know I am a mess.  A well-intentioned mess. A caring mess. A dedicated mess. But a mess just the same. To quote one of my brilliant part angel first graders "That's just the way God made me."

I knew I needed gas on SUNDAY. But it was cold and I thought oh, later. Well, Monday morning rolled around and we were a smidge early. I thought that I would maybe get gas and then drop off the kids to school before head to my own work 

Naw, I'll let them be a little early for once. I took them to school and dropped them off. Then I was THINKING. I was thinking about school and what was going on in the day, then about my other job at HandR, and then I was THINKING about after all that I had to submit my son's shout outs for the upcoming school play. I thought the whole way to the highway. 

Then my car started to chug. SUPER. Garage work was not on the list of things I was looking to do....AND THEN I REMEMBERED. 

I was supposed to get gas.....

I was so close. Just 2 more miles...You can do it car!

Well, obviously, I didn't make it. 

February, Freezing cold. I made the brilliant decision that I was going to walk to school. After all it was only 2 miles. P.S.- I tried calling my husband who did not answer his phone, so I walked. 

****Obviously this was a terrible idea. Don't ever get out of your car and try and walk on a highway. Especially in the "someone can slide right into you" winter. But, in true Theresa form I walked. 

Because Jesus loves me, a car pulled over not 6 steps from when I started walking. A beautiful soul offered to drive me. Which I greatly appreciated. Again, though- please don't just be getting in random strangers' cars. But  I digress...

Don't we all do this? I don't mean always run out of gas, which yes my 17 year old son gave me quite the lecture on, but I mean think we will do it later. We have more time. 

The honest to goodness truth is maybe we will.....or maybe we won't.

Psalms 90:12 says "Teach us to number our days, that we may have a heart of wisdom."

1 Thessalonians 5:2  for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night."

Your end....or  Jesus coming....is sooner than you think. We push off the important things- the ETERNAL things, thinking we have more time. If I had to guess the number one statement at death, a good guess would be "I thought I had more time."

WELL- YA DON'T. 

Start making time for the eternal. Get yourself right with God. take your family to church. Share the reason why you have the faith you have. Because you so not know the hour my friends. You don't have time. 

We at Kinport Assembly of God would be thrilled for you to come and join us and welcome you as part of the family. No judgement. No requirement. Just come. 10:30 on Sundays. 

We make time for what's important to us. It's now time for you to stop thinking you have more time. Our lives are but a vapor. But we ALL will have an eternity. What is yours going to look like?

Also, when your car is on 1/4 of a tank get gas. Even if it is cold, and yucky and you don't want to- Luke Demi

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