Not in Our Budget

As this day is winding down, Father, may my mind and heart be attentive to Your direction. Amen.

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Well, this afternoon I took time to do some much-needed cleaning on my bus – #25. Though we will continue to deliver lunches through the last day of “school” – June 3^rd – we were asked to have the bulk of everything tidied up by this Friday.

I have not quite finished cleaning #25 yet, in that I need to mop my floor and then thoroughly wipe down the area where my feet go when I drive – but that will have to wait. And I’m not really sure how long that wait will be.

A couple of weeks ago, the computer that takes care of the elaborate emissions components on my bus had an issue. Our fine mechanics have done everything they know to do, cleaning some parts, and replacing others as needed. But they cannot go any further. Everything they have done so far has involved communication via phone calls with International – the manufacturer of my bus. And now they’ve hit a wall. At this point, it has to be hooked up to a diagnostic computer to see what ails it. So, tomorrow morning, bright and early, #25 gets to make a trip to Zanesville. …ugh….

As I have said, we have great mechanics but without the proper software (and it is quite expensive, I am told, and not in our budget – at least not in the near future) you can only do what you know to do.

How often do we go through life only doing what we know to do? We take care of business the best we know how, but there are many things in life that we just can’t handle. We need someone with a greater understanding of the situations in which we find ourselves. What we need, is to get ourselves back to our manufacturer – our Creator. Only He can help us. It makes no difference how much experience we have; there are some things that we just can’t fix.

And before we begin thinking we can do it ourselves; we have to realize that paying for the answers to all of our life’s questions is not – and can never possibly be in our budget. Only One has paid the price and it was at great cost that He did so.

Jesus fulfills the prophecy found in Isaiah 44:22,

“I have swept away your sins like a cloud. I have scattered your offenses like the morning mist. Oh, return to me, for I have paid the price to set you free.” (NLT)

Only Jesus, our Creator, can fix what ails us because He alone was able to pay the price, and I, for one, am eternally grateful.

May 13^th, 2020, Wed, 8:29 pm