I had to take time out of work today to work on the brakes on my truck. While I was crawling around on the ground looking for the spot where the fluid has been leaking from I thought of my relationship with God and how I constantly fail to do what he asks of me as one of his followers. I found the spot where it was leaking from after shuffling around to a few choice spots, and realized the reason the part was failing was because years and years of corrosion (in the form of rust) had caused the part not to perform as it should.
That's what happens when we hold onto sin.
See God sends the brake fluid, (or the gifts of the Holy Spirit) and when we allow sin to corrode at our hearts those gifts are wasted (much like the part on my truck). We're like vessels that use the gifts from God to carry out His work here on Earth, but then Anger, Hatred, Impurity, Bitterness, Greed...these things corrode at us, and eventually...eventually we become so corroded that we aren't even in tune with what God is asking us to do. God's up in the driver seat just pumping the brakes over and over, but the job He is desiring isn't being done because we aren't fulfilling our task in the way we were designed to.
God has a plan for every one of His people, but unless we fight against our sins we can't fully experience the life God wants us to have. Much like I can't fully experience the full stopping power of my truck at the moment. =)
