Tow truck

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement

Tow truck

The car’s battery was dead. Watching from my window, I was fascinated by the process of loading my neighbor’s auto onto a flatbed truck. The first step was securing a hook onto the back of the car which was parked at an angle in a circular parking area. Second, the man attached the hook to a long cable that stretched the length of the truck’s flat bed and angled across the lot to the car.The curved space required the truck to park at a right angle to the car, the patient workman walked back and forth. First, he climbed into the front seat of the car and positioned the wheels for the proper angle to begin to turn the car toward the truck. Then he walked back to the mechanism that powered the cable to pull the car a short way. Back and forth from an adjustment to the car’s steering wheel to further turn the car and then back to the cable to pull it closer to the truck, over and over. Finally, the car was positioned to pull straight onto the end of the flatbed truck. One last adjustment pulled it onto the truck and the flat bed was raised up and ready to drive away. The process took quite a while and much walking back and forth. The flat bed carried the car off for a new battery.

It made me think of the process God must sometimes use to help people, parked at an awkward angle in life, to finally meet Jesus Christ and invite Him into their daily life. God knows just when to place the hook into a person’s mind which enables them to be pulled into the rewards of knowing God. He knows how to position and reposition a person, bit by bit, to make it possible to draw him closer to Himself. Patiently He pulls each one closer and closer until they reach a point when they are ready to meet Him and can be lifted up to the joy of knowing that He cares about their existence. They are ready for Him to lift them up and provide a new battery for living with a fresh approach to life and the energy required to drive down the road He wants us to travel.