How's your driving?

Went through a driving lesson today... and had a pretty eventful weekend. And the question i'm asking myself? How's my driving? (in all senses of the word)

Driving isn't as easy as it looks. Looking out for blind spots, depressing your cluth pedal, watching the road ahead of you, looking out for hazardous pedestrians (I'm one of them! :p), etc... many, many factors to take note of.

And guess what? Life can be viewed as a drive, but its a WHOLE lot tougher! :p "Ah yes" you must be saying... "Adrian's gonna launch into one of those cliche bits about putting God in the driving seat of our life... why in the world am i still reading this??" Hehe... well, thanks you for reading so far down and since I think that a lot of us already know this, today's blog won't be in that manner (note, manner only ah) lah...

Anway, thoughts I found myself asking were, "Driving (in the context of driving through life) is such a complex, close-to-impossible thing to do. And if left to us terrible, undisciplined, BAD drivers, accidents are gonna happen like every minute of the day. And worse of all, people are gonna get killed and hurt."

Well, sadly, that's the world today. We drive through our own lives based on our own rules. We ignore the road signs and highway codes necessary to keep us on a safe journey. These were put in place to keep us on the right track; but instead, they were treated with contempt. And the result? Innocent people have suffered, died because of our irresponsible, haphazard drive through life. And this weekend, I saw firsthand the result of someone so tramautised to drive through life, that this friend of mine came close to throwinging away the key and was possibly wishing to drive off a cliff.

As drivers, what's our destination? (By the way, let's take note that by grace, we have passed the driving test. We would all have failed but someone else took the test for us :) Anyway, back to the point...) The road that we have to take is an offbeat track. Bumps and sharp objects are to be expected. This isn't an F1 race where super-human teams are there to change our tyres, refuel the car and all the other precision stuff that happens at the pitstop. This is off-track terrain. We have to get prepared down and dirty work. When tyres burst, we have to manually change them ourselves. Our hands have to get greasy to jack the car up if we fall into mud. There's the risk of others inconsiderately splashing mud on us as they zoom past.

And yet, the race toward the final destination has to go on. Along the way however, do we, as Christian drivers, stop and help others change their tyres? Do we help repair their vehicle or do we drive on like we never saw them? When we see others heading in the totally different direction cos they lost their navigator, do we offer to share in the knowledge of the way to the finishing line?

Its a dirty job, and guess what? We all gotta do it! The question is, "Do we?"

Along the way however, let's take heart and focus on the destination. Though we may arrive with cuts and bruises, the joy of reaching that final destination will definitely overshadow anything we could have gone through :)

Press on!