Why We Like Gauges
Theme for the Week: Unstuffing Our Emotions
Gordon MacDonald
Sunday, October 14, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: Inside I am like bottled-up wine, like new wineskins ready to burst. I must speak and find relief (Job 32:19-20).
Bonus Reading: 1 Samuel 20:34-42
Some years ago the auto manufacturers in Amer-ica began replacing the gauges on the dashboard with what came to be called idiot lights. Oil pressure low? A red light came on. Temperature too high? Another red light. For awhile, the buying public thought the change was wonderful. The absence of old-fashioned gauges seemed to be a sign of technological progress.
But then people noticed that the sports cars had more gauges than ever. And so did the cockpits of airplanes. And space vehicles. And a lot of us began to feel left out. Gauges showed that we were in touch with the vehicle. Real men who drove sports cars and piloted planes had gauges. Before long, some started paying a premium for cars with lots of gauges that gave more information about a car's performance than was really necessary.
We like the gauges because we're a breed of people who want to be in maxi- mum touch with the systems that make their cars go. Now if we could learn that same lesson about the feeling "systems" the Creator gave us .
Gordon MacDonald in When Men Think Private Thoughts
Lord, let me grow to belike David and Jonathana whole man: physically and mentally strong, emotionally expressive.
Adapted from: When Men Think Private Thoughts (Nelson, 1996) with permission.
For your convenience, When Men Think Private Thoughts is available in the ChristianityToday.com bookstore.
Copyright © 2001 by the author or Christianity Today, Inc./Men of Integrity magazine.
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