Sep 9, 2014

Don't look at the car pay attention to the driver!

Don't look at the car pay attention to the driver!

As the Lord has been dealing with me on issues of my past, He has brought certain things to remembrance and set me free from the chains they held me bound in. Today was another of those such days.
As I was riding down the road I saw an old classic car go by and I thought I recognized the driver so I strained to see who it was. It was then that I heard the words" Don't look at the car , pay attention to the driver." And then the flood of memories came pouring in.
When I was in Jr. high school (middle school to some) my best friend and I were leaving school together; I lived behind the school so I walked but she lived further away so she got a ride. As we were talking she said , " hey come meet my brother." I didn't care anything about meeting her brother it was the car that I wanted to see. It was a yellow and black Chevelle SS and sharp as a tack. Just beautiful.  That meeting was the beginning of the rest  life as I knew it then.
Through many things lining up and a lot to troubles sorrows and struggles I ended up marrying him  at 16. He turned out to be a violently abusive man, who was so controlling I still have issues to be set free from today. But that's not  the  reason for this blog.
Through these memories the Lord showed me that if you pay attention to" the car" self  desires and the enemy will draw you in by the pretty things, by the things you think you need, by flowery words and gentle persuasion.  But when it's got you that is when all hell will break out upon you.  If you pay attention to " the driver" you will use discernment and know who the driver is  before you take that leap.
Is it self and or the enemy driving your car or is your car driven by the Holy Spirit?

Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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