After a meeting at  Phoenix Seminary last week, Kristi and I were driving north to Prescott with  John Perry (a good friend)  to visit his family and  church.   Most of the drive was through desert.   Cactus country, very dry and deserted.    Just nearing the crest of a hill, the car quit.   I looked at the gauges and that anxious  “uh-oh” feeling hit me when I saw the fuel was on “E”.   Out of gas.   How could I let that happen?   I had passengers I was responsible for.   We had places to go and no fuel to get there, and we were in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by barren land.   It was a humbling moment.

So, I  announced our empty condition  and switched the drive into neutral to see how far we could drift.    John commented that he thought there might be a gas station over the hill.    I  figured he was joking.  I didn’t see anything but desert.   As the car crested the hill, sure enough, there was a gas station within sight.    Not too far to walk, I thought.   But the car kept drifting.   And the car kept going, making the most out of  the gradual slope .    We rolled on and on down the freeway, all the way off the ramp and right to the gas station and up to the pump.   It was amazing.    It was a blessing from God’s hand.    I said to Kristi, “What are the chances of that?   There must be a devotional thought in this.”    She replied right away, “It doesn’t matter where you are, how empty you feel, how drained your spiritual tank, God’s resources are always in reach.    He is always nearby ready to fill us up for the journey.”  

Eph 3:16-19

“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,  so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,  may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,  and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

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