My brother has a great big motor home. Many times this summer he has driven it by our house on his way toa local reacewaywhile blowing the horn profusely.
The motor home has allowed people to put all the conveniences of home on wheels. A camper no longer needs to contend with sleeping in a sleeping bag, cooking over a fire, or hauling water from a stream. Now he can park a fully equipped home in the midst of a few pine trees and hook up to a water line, a sewer line, and electricity. Some motor homes even have a satellite dish attached on top. No more bother with dirt; no more smoke from the fire; no more drudgery of walking to the stream. Now it is possible to go camping and never have to go outside.
People buy a motor home with the hope of seeing new places and getting out into the world. Yet they deck it out with the same furnishings they have in their living room. Thus nothing really changes. We may drive to a new place and set ourselves in new surroundings, but the newness goes unnoticed because we"™ve only carried along our old setting"¦..our old habits"¦our old way of thinking.
The adventure of new life in Christ begins when the comfortable patterns of the old life are left behind.
Big Motor Home
