What's in it For Me? @ C4L

WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?
by Sally Hanan
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I want a car. I want one so badly that I searched the web in first gear last night looking for free cars. I know they’re out there, and I specifically heard the Lord tell me to do a Google search on ads, free car, Austin. You wouldn’t believe all of the great offers that came up. That’s proof that He led me there.

I was kind of discouraged, then, when I read an article from Top Site Reviews – it had the nerve, right after I had sent a very serious enquiry to a company, to say that most free car ads are scams! Check it out for yourself. http://www.topsitereviews.com/freecars.html My face lit up again though when I read the end of the article. It said that a handful of free, ad-wrapped, car-owning companies are for real!

Back I went to take a look at the sites the article writer recommended. In exchange for taking your car to their retail center, or by agreeing to drive one of their cars, they will wrap the aforementioned car with neon colored stickers for a branded product or service, and you get to be the idiot driving around in it for the next two years! Imagine that!

What’s in it for me, besides having everyone look at me and ask for free samples of Wondercrunch Chips, is that I’d get paid around $300 a month for doing so, or have the free use of a new car. I can’t lose!

That got me thinking, a serious problem I have sometimes, about what we do for things we want. How far would you go if you got a satisfactory benefit at the end? How foolish would you allow yourself to look? It’s on TV all the time. $1,000,000 to sit on an island for a few weeks drinking coconut juice and put up with some silly girls, a huge new house if you cry up enough of a sob story on your application video, $50,000 to leave your dearly beloved for two weeks and have all of your pride in house cleaning and motherhood judged by the nation.

David was willing to act like a fool in order to show his joy in the Lord…. and I am willing to look even more foolish than this. (Samuel 6:21-22, NLT)

That’s it. That’s all he wanted.

For this is the secret: Christ lives in you, and this is your assurance that you will share in his glory. (Colossians 1:27, NLT)

Abraham, Joshua, David, Nehemiah, Esther, Daniel, Micah, all they wanted (once they got over themselves) was what God wanted. They knew the secret of a godly life, and they knew that what was in it for them was God Himself.

Now I know that all I need is to do is put aside what I want or think I need, and fill my head instead with what God wants. Then maybe I won't be spending my time in first gear on Google, I'll be in God's convertible on the highways of holiness, with the wind of the Holy Spirit blowing through my red locks. If that's acting like a fool, bring_ it_ on.

See ya!

Sally Hanan is a member of Faithwriters Christian Writing Community

You can reach Sally Hanan at eagermind@eagermind.com

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