Running on Empty

Dear  Reader

 
what's  up?  So I   was  at home the other  day and all of a sudden i thought about  those   leaders,   young and old  who  are SO busy that they  run themselves empty   then i got thinking about  cars.  so  hopefully  you  can follow my analogy.
 OK  Rachel's old  car  the  Chevy cavalier  was a  death  mobile. the  gas speedometer  didn't  work on it  so you  never  knew how much gas  was in it  other then  when the  smell of gas got really strong. anyways there  was a few times  we  ended up pushing  her  car to a nearest  gas  station. 
    OK so  how  is being empty  like an oil change as well as a  empty  gas tank.  well  think of it like this  we  all need  proper  tools to function when we don't read our bible its like emptying out the  gas  tank eventually there's  going to be  no more  gas  in your  tank.   so we  need to  keep filling ourselves up with the  word  daily.  the oil change is like  the essentials of our life if we don't take care  of ourselves and we keep putting junk in ourselves we  can  run  dry, we become  black like old oil.  
  I  am in a place in life where  i feel so empty,  so dry.  for me it's  cause i don't think about how much God truly  loves me. we  all  have things that  fill us up.  but  what  are you filling yourself up with?  pure  crap  or  pure  rich  stuff.  like worship, positive thinking,  Gods  word.  you can fill in the blanks for yourself. I  know that  we  all have  different  reasons  to why we  feel  empty.this morning almost afternoon  i  keep thinking about  people who are running on  empty.whether its there emotional love tank is  empty.  its like  a car if you don't take time to fill  your  car  up  with   gasoline you  eventually  run on empty. if you  don't  check your oil levels  it  can worse case  scenario blow  your  transmission. cause in cars there  is  2 kinds of  oil  changes, there is  the  normal oil change  which is to be changed every  5000-10,000 kilometres or miles   then there  is a transmission oil change that  should be done every  i think  50-80 thousand kilometres or miles. what happens when you  don't check this is eventually   your transmission  seizes  up kind of like a hard  surface.  same thing happens with people  if they  stop   reading the  bible they run out they run dry and  can become  empty and callous eventually.  now  how do we change the  cycle  back to  the  car analogy  again.  in order to do an oil change you must  first  get out  the  right  tools jack up  or  boost  up your car  then when you are under you   will place a bucket  and loosen up the  thing  where  your oil  comes  out. what happens is it comes through a  filter  you can always  tell when you haven't changed your  oil  on time the  oil is black and almost thicker substance.  anyways   you wait for the  oil  to come out then  when its all out  you  wipe  your area down  now the secret to putting the  new filter  in is take some of the old oil  and   rub it along the top  where  you  twist it on so it will go into place better. then when you make sure there is no  dirt   you  pour  your  new oil in.

Elz