$5 Gas???

Huh? $5 for a gallon of gas? Can this possibly be true, well guess what Americans, it is and it may get worse. Now I don't want to be all gloom and doom on you but we brought this on ourselves. You see, we love excess!! Hey, if two is good, then three must be better and four is GREAT!!
Take a look at our roadways today and what do you see? Most of the time large vehicles, SUV's, Hummers, large bulky vehicles that we can carry a lot of people or a lot of stuff in... for you see we like our stuff and our stuff is making gas prices rise.
So a few months ago when gas prices really started to rise, I started to look into options that would increase my gas mileage. Hypermilers http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18923454/ was something that I really loved. These guys take ordinary cars and work on them and do things to them to increase their milage to excessive amounts. They block off any holes in the body that would increase drag so they will slip through the air better. They take off anything that will increase drag, mirrors, spoliers, and even attennas so they will not have to push any extra air. They inflate their tires to the maximum to increase roll, they do special things to their bearings to increase roll. But most off all they change their driving habits, no jack rabbit starts, keeping the RPM's down, drafting behind other cars, getting rid of the junk in the trunk (take that anyway you want) that adds to the weight of our vehicle, and no hard braking, in the world of hypermilers, coasting is your friend!!
So I was thinking of this the other day (and yes I have gained about 2 miles per gallon!!) and started to think how we can apply this to our Christian life. You see to improve (and that is what CHRIST calls us to do) we need to work on certain things. Taking off the things that drag (get it?) us down and make our lives easier to cut through (get it?) the trials of this life. We need to make sure that we are operating as efficiently as possible, maintainence is important and we need to make sure that we are spiritual tires are filled up (get it?) and that we have lubricated our spirit regularly (get it?). And we need to make some changes in our habits as well, not get too excited that we blow off the line (get it?), don't use excessive braking when GOD is moving us along and keeping our RPM's in check (get it?). Get rid of that excess stuff that you carry around for no good reason, offenses, greivances and such that may not even apply today is like carrying around a jack that doesn't work, it is useless and cost you.
I really believe that we can learn a whole lot from those things around us, if we will just look for the application. Gotta go weld up my hood opening and cut off my rearview mirrors, as I just can't abide $5 gas...