Being Ashamed
I remember my first car accident. I was driving down I-20 in Dallas headed home from school in my Champagne colored ‘97 Nissan Pathfinder. All of a sudden the car in front of me swerved to the right to avoid something and I didn’t have time to react and follow suit in time. It happened so quick it’s hard to remember exactly how it went down, but what I do remember is a old mattress falling from the air and landing a few feet in front of me.
The next thing I knew, it was under my wheels and the mattress springs were tightly tangled to everything on the bottom side of my car. My car slowed, sparks flew, and the fire department had to come. Did I just run over a old mattress on the freeway son? When I arrived at the dealership the next day to get my car after they towed it and untangled it, every single dude who worked there was outside laughing at me. I couldn’t believe they were heckling me, “Are you the dude with the mattress?” It was a real long walk to the check out desk.
I say all that to say that there are some things that we should be ashamed of. The Gospel is not one of them.
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