Roadside Assistance
This Week's Theme: Tuning in to God
Dallas Willard
Wednesday, May 9, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you (1 Peter 5:7).
Bonus Reading:Psalm 55
Businessman Robert McFarlane moved to California from Oklahoma in 1970. Within a few days of arrivingdue to a disastrous misunderstanding with a close friendhe had to take control of an insurance agency he didn't want, to save his large investment in it.
One spring day in 1973, Robert drove toward his Long Beach office, facing yet another day of frustration in his strenuous efforts to keep the business afloat. Suddenly he was filled with a frantic urge to turn left onto the road out of townand just disappear. But into the midst of his inner turmoil came a command: "Pull over to the curb."
After he pulled over, he says, there came to him, as though from someone in the car, these words: "My Son had strains that you'll never know, and when He had those strains, He turned to Me. That's what you should do."
Robert sat at the wheel for a long time, sobbing aloud. He then drove to his office, where he faced 22 major, outstanding problems. All the most significant problemscompany disagreements; clients deciding to remain with his agency; payments of sizable, late premiumswere substantially resolved by day's end.
Dallas Willard in Hearing God Respond:
Am I prepared to let God intervene in my life? Thought to Apply:
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
Abraham Lincoln (16th U.S. president)
Adapted from: Hearing God (InterVarsity, 1984)
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Father, I know You are real, but this week I want to really sense Your presence.
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