Warm Up the Engine!
You may not feel it immediately but skipping your daily time with God is having an impact on your spirit and entire being.
There are several things we do just because it is traditional to do so, we have never taken time to ask why we do them.
I have been driving for a while now but I have never really asked why it is important to warm up the engine of the car in the morning before going out. All along I just believed it must have some great benefits since it is what an average driver does.
So, I decided to look it up and I discovered that warming up the car allows the engine’s components to disperse oil evenly throughout every moving part.
Without the proper warmup time, one can risk damaging the engine’s pistons, which may warp or experience undue wear as a result of being driven cold.
As I think about this, I got a renewed revelation of why it is important for me to warm up my inner man (the real engine) daily before driving it out to face a toxic world.
Many believers are experiencing unnecessary wear and tear from the pressures of life because all they do is drag a cold engine out each morning without proper warm up. Few hours into the day, they are tired, depressed and distracted.
You may not feel it immediately but skipping your daily time with God is having an impact on your spirit and entire being.
Just as a car won't break down immediately due to mismanagement, so also will you not break down immediately if you keep missing your appointment with God.
But be assured that someday, you will pay dearly for your truancy.
A day is coming when this engine is going to break down and you will need to drag it to the mechanic.
Friend, cultivate the habit of warming up your spirit daily in God's presence before you go out. Let the oil of the Spirit disperse to every moving part of your being.
Open your Bible, meditate, pray in the Spirit, spend the proper warm up time in God's presence. It will dispel life's friction. You will build capacity to deal with life's responsibilities.
Stop going out with a dry and cold head. Stop dragging this engine into a chaotic world without proper lubrication. Don't damage your engine's pistons.
Warm up the engine. Daily!
© Olufemi Babalola
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“you will pay dearly for your truancy.”
This got me sir. God help me.
Thank you sir.