I've bought a few good used tires, but nothing new. It's easier for me to pay thirty bucks every 6 months to a year than a hundred or more on something that may not last any longer, what with the nails and all. But I don't even mean buy a used tire. If I have the money I will patch a tire. If I don't, I'll plug the hole. And if I don't even have the funds for a plug or just put things off, I try to manage by parking where the nail is on the bottom of the tire and adding air every day.
Now that last plan of procrastination is not the wisest, and I don't recommend it. I've come to regret it more than once. The nail works its way out of the tire, and, suddenly, you're changing a tire on the side of the road somewhere. Or you walk out of the house needing to get somewhere only to realize you missed the perfect park and the air leaked out over night. Now you're late, and you have to deal with a flat. Even if it all works right, you have to be mindful and watch it. You have to put air in the tire every day, and think about it every time you park.
The leak never seals itself up. It doesn't get better and need less air as time goes by. Eventually, things are going to have to be fixed or replaced, because keeping air in the tire becomes less and less possible. And we're a lot like that old tire. Like a rushing mighty wind [the Spirit] came. When we become children of God, we are sealed by and filled with the Spirit. But we come to God broken and wounded. In other words, we leak.
Daddy desires relationship with us. He never fixes us where we won't go flat on this side of eternity. If He did we would likely forget that He filled us and fixed our leaks and drive on down the road like we don't need Him to hold us together. No, even the best and healthiest of us spiritually leak. We need to be careful and watch our air pressure. We need to make sure we add enough air before we go driving around our lives so we don't cause damage trying to ride on a flat tire. We need to keep an eye on it during the day and be careful of our position when we stop for the night.
My experience is that, like with a tire, the leak doesn't get better. I need as much regular time with God to keep from slipping back into self and going flat now than I did when I first came to recovery and discipleship. Today, let us not think that just because we haven't been flat for a while that we can just go without spending time with Daddy and making sure we are optimally filled with the Spirit. One day, we'll be through on this side of eternity, and when we cross to the other side, the work of making us totally new and whole will be complete. Until then we leak. Take the time to stay pumped up, and don't risk going flat and getting stranded on the side of the road with our life.
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