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NASCAR Theology
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| Written by N. Billardello |
| I was joking with a friend one day, and told him I could take anything, and pull some kind of theological lesson from it. So he challenged me to come up with a theological lesson from NASCAR. Here is what I said: God the Father, the creator of all things, has created for us a race-track of life. And we are uniquely designed vehicles that are flying around this creation way too fast. The Holy Spirit is trying to direct us through the track, or driving us, but we don’t always listen to the Holy Spirit, and for one reason or another we hit the wall, or other cars, or get flat tires. We want to go where the Holy Spirit is leading, but other cars get in the way, and they tempt us to try a different route. Kind of like the Serpent and Eve. So as hard as we try to drive straight, but it’s not possible, and we get dented up… we get all dented up, everyday. People hurt us, we hurt ourselves, and we hurt others; we are always denting and being dented. But by the grace of God we are driven by the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit directs on to the pits for repair, some might call church “the pits”, but I mean it in a positive sense. And waiting for us on pit road, is Jesus, the ultimate crew chief, who through his inconceivable love is there waiting to fix us. He loved us so much that He died for us, He gave his body so that ours could be fixed. This is a way of understanding communion, through eating and drinking his body and blood, we are repaired and made whole. Then we head back out to the race track and start getting dented again… on a side note, I think we all know people who aren’t being driven by the Holy Spirit… I just wonder who is healing them in the pits? If you have any comments, or any questions you’d like me to blog about, email me at nbillardello@hotmail.com. May you feel God’s love today, Nick.
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