Have a safe ride home. See ya next time.
The ride home.
Alone with your thoughts.
The low hum of the tires that you can hear… and feel.
A small flush of excitement as you get underway. Playing with the radio the first ten miles or so… and then… turning the radio off.
Alone with your thoughts.
All kinds of thoughts. Thoughts about how the trip went. “Did I make my point about extreme follower-ship?”
Thoughts about getting that new camp stove from Firebox Steve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZU4WUHpQs4
Thoughts about getting a pointing breed for your next hunting buddy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzUTxFAx_7Y
Thoughts about ideas for your next blog article… like blending a grouse hunt with an overnight camp-out using said stove and said dog.
Then… the real quiet sets in.
No thoughts. No worries. No focus.
Then as if a popcorn kernel went off in your head… without making a single sound… there it is. A bible verse. Seemingly outta left field.
Just a partial verse at first, “What good is it?”
You start to focus your thinking to try and remember the whole thing.
But the harder you try the faster the whole verse gets sucked out to sea and you can’t reel it in.
So you take your mind off of it for a moment, remembering a different verse you have memorized, “Seek ye first his kingdom and all this shall be given…”
POP!!!
There it is, the Book of James chapter 2…
“What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.
20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[d]? 21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.”
Then as you contemplate Gods words you mumble to yourself, “faith and action working together, faith and action working together, faith… and… action… working together.”
And after at least a three hour tour, or longer, you pull into your driveway, place your hands on the wheel and softly ask…
“Lord what would you have me do?”
Nice, nice ride home!