It
doesn’t bother me to drive in the rain, even when it is pouring, as long as I
have wipers that wipe fast enough and good tires on the wheels. It is
annoying after the rain though, when the roads are still wet and my windshield
gets splashed with muck. Those are the
times you need to have full washer fluid to keep washing your windshield off
just so you can see. You just finish
cleaning it when a pickup drives by, cuts in front of you and ‘Splat!!!’ you
can’t see and have to clean AGAIN!
Dealing with these kinds of issues is one of the countless problems we
have to get used to when driving, and we DO seem to need to drive. Work, school, shopping, appointments, lack of
bussing all keep us driving the streets.
There are always places to go, people to see and things to do. Problems, including dirty windshields, are
part of the driving package; just like temptation/ sin is part of the world.
Pure religion and
undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their
afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the
world. Jm. 1:27
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| In the world means we WILL get splashed, but we don't need to remain spotted. |
We are constantly ‘driving’ through this
world to get to where we need to go, so how is it possible to keep ourselves from
getting ‘dirt’ splashed up on us? Can we
actually remain unspotted? I don’t
believe so based on the simple fact that we are human and prone to sin. Temptations and sin are all around us and we
aren’t very good at keeping them out of view/ hearing. Then when we succumb, we get mad that we’ve
failed again, but we failed because we neglected to stay out of the path of
temptation!
So, how DO we remain unspotted? I’m sure there’s more helpful ways besides
these, but here are a few important ones: stay spiritually healthy, remove the
unhealthy from our lives, obey the Word, avoid the I’s of the world, and live
in Christ.
(Come back to read the details of
how to remain unspotted in the next post...)