Keep Driving

Talk about an adventure…it was a few months ago that my mom and I found the one town in California that didn’t have a Starbucks on every corner. We spoiled ‘city folk’ drove around for about an hour in a town where we were going to be working at a concert, looking for a Starbucks. Imagine the frustration when you’re working on five hours of sleep and then you’re expected to be wide awake and aware to work and you CANNOT find a coffee shop for the life of you.

An hour into our little excursion, we had decided that we were going to give up and head back to the concert hall. Totally bummed (and at this point, going through extreme coffee withdrawals) we drove further to see where we could turn back around…and that is when we saw it: a drive-thru Starbucks! *Que Hallelujah Chorus HERE* …At this point I know what you’re thinking: ‘you spoiled brat! You could have gone without coffee for an hour’…while I might disagree with you on that (seriously people, I’m hooked on coffee) as we were paying for our coffee in the drive thru- I felt like the Lord was trying to teach me something. No- not how to get off the Starbucks bandwagon. But something deeper that should really apply to all of our lives at one point or another.

How often do we quit? Back in the day when there was no computers, no telephone, no ‘handy-man’ or anything for that matter, people actually had to work to get what they wanted. Even if that meant shedding blood, sweat, and tears, but in the end it was worth it too see what had produced for all of the patience and hard work. Now these days though, if we can’t get what we want right at this very second when we want it- it’s game over.

We as followers of Christ live our live that same way…but in a very different light. When God makes a promise to us, it says in His Word that He is always faithful to keep it. He is not a man who can lie, nor the Son of man that He should ever apologize for NOT keeping a promise (Numbers 23:19). It says in Romans 8:32 “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” Think about that! How can He NOT. When God gives us a promise…how can He NOT accomplish it?

But it all goes right back to the waiting game. And how when we don’t get what we want right now, then we just assume that God has given up on us…so we go back to our old ways and instead of waiting patiently with perseverance to see the wonders that God has for us, we are back at square one, trying to make it on our own. And I promise all of you…this is about half of the reason why Christians today are so unhappy. They think that our God isn’t capable to keep His word when it states so blatantly in the Bible that He is literally obligated to keep it. And because there was no higher name to swear it by, His swore it in His own name. Can you ever claim to swear anything in your own name?

The point of this message is a simple one, but one that far too many people need to hear: wait. Don’t give up, don’t turn around, don’t think that God isn’t faithful and PLEASE don’t try it on your own (because I’m pretty sure we all know that on our own- we won‘t make it.) But with God on our side, giving Him all control of whatever situation it may be, more is possible than you can ever imagine. How can He NOT do this?

Stay with God, hold on to His word, and keep on driving…because you might just be one turn away from that Starbucks.