Wreck on the Way to Happen

Not too long ago I was on my way home following a mid-week service with our church family. It was a dark cloudy evening and the streets were just a little damp from the light rain, which was falling. I was traveling south on the highway, a white mini van was in front of me and the drive home was for the moment much the same as any other drive home on a Wednesday night. Then it happened, the mini van began swerving and braking and I also pushed the brake on my red truck. The mini van was able to swerve into the next lane, and then I saw first hand what was causing the problem. Just in front of my truck was a large fifth wheel trailer running with out taillights or any other lights. As a matter of fact the truck pulling this large trailer was also missing taillights. This was a wreck on the way to happen.

Now for the ironic part of this story, the trailer was loaded with wrecked cars that had been smashed and they were on their way to a salvage yard or a metal recycling center to be melted down into something other than a car. I thought to myself, is this driver just out trying to find more wrecks to add to his load? Since I was able to get around this driver safely I found the whole thing both scary and funny at the same time. The idea of a truck pulling a trailer fully loaded with wrecked cars possibly being responsible for causing other wrecks …. I was beginning my thought process about how to turn this event into an article when I drove up behind another truck pulling a trailer with a car on it. This time it was all different, the trailer and truck were well lit with all the proper tail lights and markers and flashing yellow strobes. The car it was carrying had been in a wreck, but this car was being taken to a local body shop for repairs.

It’s just funny how life lessons are everywhere around you. Within in just a couple of miles of each other were two trucks pulling trailers with wreck cars on them. One truck was taking cars to be further smashed and melted down and the other truck was taking a car to be restored and made as good as new.

That is the way life is every day. Satan is looking for wrecked lives to add to his collection so he can take them away and turn them into something they were never created to become. Then there is Jesus who is also looking for wrecked lives, but he gently picks them up and cares of them and restores them like new again. Jesus restores them into the life they were created to live.

Some who are reading this may be thinking their life is one big wreck and how could anyone love what I have become and how can my life be fixed? Well I am here to tell you some good news; you are just the sort of person Jesus is looking for. He specializes in turning wrecked lives into brand new lives full of hope, peace, purpose and love. So what do you say, turn your life over to Jesus and let him change you into the person you were created to be.

Love God. Go Love Others.