Where’s My Car??
I stepped out of the Wesley Foundation at Stephen F. Austin State University and headed to my car in the parking lot. I had arrived just twenty minutes before for a meeting but due to the director having a protracted conference call, our meeting would need to be rescheduled.
As I continued into the parking lot, I began to search for my little car. I didn’t see it! I kept walking. Surely I was overlooking it somehow. I walked to the far side of the lot where I had left my car. “Okay, look closely,” I thought to myself. I spun around and thought, “Did I park somewhere else and forgot that I didn’t actually park here? No, I parked right here and walked down the sidewalk into the building from here. The car was parked right here! Okay, where’s my car?!”
“Did someone steal my car?” I couldn’t help thinking. Then I wondered if my wife, Kim, might have come by to get it for some reason. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks….”I’ve been towed!!!!”
I walked back into the building and asked the secretary if that was a possibility. Sure enough, one of the students overheard and said that he had seen it being loaded up by the tow truck. I was immediately drawn to the passage in the Bible that speaks about how we should handle our worldly possessions.
Jesus tells us in Luke 12:33-34; “Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
I hope that I hold onto the material things of this world very loosely and that I can part with any of it without getting upset or freaking out over the thought of it being taken away from me. I hope that I can use what God has given me to bless the lives of others who are less fortunate. May all the resources that we have be available to help others and to reach others for Christ. You never know. .. It might just get hauled off by a guy in a tow truck!
