Episode 64 - Finding Home on The Open Road

Now I want you to listen closely. I know I'm

speaking to men and women who understand something about the

world that most people never see. You see the sunrise

over the Atlantic and sent over the Pacific. You know

the loneliness of the midnight stretch of asphalt in the

middle of Nebraska. You know the hum of a diesel

engine and the way the white lines on the pavement

can start to blur after a thousand miles. But also

know that many of you carry a heavy burden in

that cab. It's not afraid in the trailer. It's the

weight on your heart. It's the ache of being three

states away from the people you love. It's the feeling

that while you're out there and provide for your family,

you're slowly becoming a stranger to them, and maybe, just

maybe you feel like a stranger to God who Today

I want to talk to you about maintaining closeness, closeness

with your family, and closeness with your Creator, even when

you're a thousand mile from home. The Bible says in

Saw one thirty nine, verse seven through ten, where can

I go from your spirit? Where can I flee from

your presence? If I go up to the heavens.

You are there.

I make my bed in the depths.

You are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if

I set on the far side of the sea, even there,

your hand will guide me. Your right hand will hold

me fast. My friends, there's no stretch of highways so desolate,

no truck stops so lonely, and no night so dark

that God is not right there in your passenger's seat

with you. You may be far from your zip code,

but you're never ever far from His grace. The first

thing we must realize is that our relationship with God

doesn't depend on a church building. I love the church,

and the Bible says we should not forsake the assembling

of ourselves together. But for you, the cab of that

truck is your sanctuary. That driver's seat is your pew.

Many drivers tell me brand it, I'm too busy shifting

gears and watching traffic to pray. But the Bible says

to pray without season. That doesn't mean you close your eyes,

please keep your eyes on the road. It means you

live in a constant state of conversation with the Almighty.

You see, God's interested in your life. He's interested in

that delivery deadline. He's interested in that mechanical trouble you're

having when you're rolling down the interstate. Talk to him,

Tell him your fears, tell him your frustrations. The Bible says,

cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for

you the first Peter five seven. Don't want that Bible

sit on the dashboard gathering dust. Let it be the

map for your soul, he says. You wouldn't dream of

driving a route without a GPS or a map. Don't

try to navigate the temptations and the lonelyiness of the

road without the word of God. The Bible is God's

letter to you. It's his way of saying I love you,

I have a plan for you. I will never leave

you nor forsake you. Now, what about your family. I

know the pain of the long haul. I've spent much

of my life traveling the roads, leaving my wife, Stacy

and our kids at home. I know what it's like

to miss a birthday, to miss a school play, to

miss the quiet moments of a Sunday afternoon. The devil

wants to use those miles to build a wall between

you and your spouse, between you and your kids. He

wants you to feel isolated. He wants your family to

feel abandoned. But you can bridge that gap through the

power of the Holy Spirit and intentionality. The Bible tells

us in Proverbs twenty two six to train up a

child in the way he should go. You can still

leave your family from one thousand miles away. In this

age of technology, there's no excuse. Call them, not just

to talk about the bills of the weather, but to

pray with them. Lets your kids hear their father's voice

or their mother's voice talking to God. Let your spouse

know that they are on your priority. I want to

challenge you. Don't just provide for their physical needs, provide

for their spiritual needs. Be the spiritual anchor of your home,

even from a sleeper cap. When you stay close to God,

he gives you a supernatural love that can reach across

state lines. He gives you the patience to listen when

you're tired. He gives you the words to say when

you're frustrated. But there's a deeper question I must to

ask you today. You spend your life making sure your

cargo reaches its destination. Check your logs to check your fuel,

you check your tires. You're focused on the finish line.

But let me ask you, where's your soul headed? What's

your ultimate destination? The Bible tells us that we're all

travelers on the road of life, and there are only

two roads. Jesus said, enter through the narrow gate, for

why is the gate, and broad as the road that

leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small

as the gate, and there the road that leads to life,

and only if you find it Matthew seven thirteen to fourteen.

You may be the best driver on the road, he

may have a million miles without an accident. But if

you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord savior, you're

on the wrong road. You're headed for a dead end.

God loves you so much that he sent his son

Jesus Christ to die on the cross for your sins.

He took the wreck that we deserve so we could

have a clear path to heaven. He rose again from

the grave to give you hope, not just for the

next mile, but for returnity. When you have Christ in

your heart, the loneliness of the road begins to fade.

Why because you have a friend who sticks closer than

a brother, a peace that passes all understanding.

You have a home.

Waiting for you that no amount of miles can take away.

I'm asking you today to make a decision. I'm asking

you to pull over spiritual speaking and check your heart.

If you've been drifting, if you've left the road, that

the road come between you and God. Will the road

come between you and your family? Today's to day to

turn it around. First, if you've never given your life

to Jesus Christ, do it right now. You don't need

a fancy prayer to say and mean it in your

heart to say the Lord, I'm a sinner. I've been

driving my own life and I've made a mess of it.

I believe you die for me. Come into my heart

and take the wheel. And Second, I want you to

commit to a daily pre trip inspection for your soul

before you start that engine. Every morning, spend five minutes

in the Word of God, five minutes in prayer. Ask

God to protect your family and to keep you close

to him. Third, make it a point to connect with

your family every single day with a spiritual purpose. Don't

just check in, Pray with them over the phone, tell

them you love them, and tell them that God is

what God is doing in your life. Road is along,

the nights are lonely. But I promise you on the

authority of the Word of God that if you walk

with him, he will walk with you. He will bring

you home, not just to your house at the end

of week, but to His house at the.

End of the journey.

May God bless you. They keep your hands steady on

the wheel, May keep your heart anchor and his love.

I've been rolling down this highway from near three weeks

from more.

Apart from my wife and family.

But I Lord, I'm rolling for to love and protect

and never forget the good Lord gave it all. I

don't take for granted that grace he's saying it. I'm

still answering the call. But he wasn't. Alais answering. I

needed saving. Every day miles roll since way, Grace is

riding shot.

I was lost.

I was glad, so hard to find from mercy tracking

me down time. Now I'm standing in flood. Yeah, I

believe in the blood. Yeah, I believe in the blood.

Now the only way I'm holding rides on the back

of the rig.

Still can't see why he died from me. Cold the

hot or be now I'm looking.

That's help my brother passing on down the line, and

when my savior comes from me will roll on streets.

It's shining because I remain. I know where I came

from and the man I was running from by from

things way time race his ride and shot jump. I

was lost. I was blind, so hard to.

Fine a birsty track me down in time.

Now I'm standing in a floo. Yeah, I believed in

the blood. I believed in the burn. I was down

to my last dollar in a prayer I couldn't say.

Then I felt and pulled me from the dark and

dying being the same.

Lives long since way till but grass riding shot shot.

I was lost. I was glad and so hard fella.

But now I believed than live behind and of coldingnis

love ye.

I believed in blur. Now'm moving home for good, and

I believe in the blood.