Jesus take the Wheel, take it from my hand.( Sing it)

Living here in NC, I have heard Carrie Underwood's song.."Jesus take the wheel" over and over again, and I don't even listen to country music..
Have you ever fallen asleep at the while driving?
When I was in college, My family was driving me back after a long weekend home, it was an 8 hour trip, We left after church on a Sunday night and my uncle was driving , we all were asleep and all of a SUDDEN, we were swirling around and around til we can to a sudden stop!
Then after I was married, my husband and I made a 24 hour trip to MI to surprise his family fro Christmas, the trip was 12 hours one way( we were young and.. yes.. stupid but we were in love ;oO ), On the way back, my dear husband fell asleep and we found our self all over the road and ended up in the middle of the road with traffic stop and all looking at us. Both times God protected me from getting hurt..
I have never fell asleep driving but there have been times that I wondered how I got from point A to B and then at a light I would be jolted by the horns behind me, telling me to GO Girl!,
I didn't remember dozing off. In today's world, we are all so busy with work, kids and their lives, family, friends and church. No wonder.. the polls have shown that 67 % of women have sleeping problems and 43 % say that daytime sleepiness interferes with their daily routines.
Most of the time,I do not have a problem sleeping ,BUT.. I have found myself sleeping spiritually.. I have been going along in life, reading God's word but not even knowing what I read and serving him but not knowing why or how I got from point A to point B... I have been in his presence in my quiet time and in corporate worship and then,I have walked away and not been changed!!! How could this be? When you are in the presence of the almighty God, you should be changed! Just like when you are sleeping, when you wake up , you should be rested!

Psalm 51:1 "Be gracious to me,God according to your faithful love: according to your abundant compassion,blot out my rebellion." Now as I first read that,I rejoiced over the fact that He is faithful to love me and blot out my rebellion.( which we need to celebrate it) but as I meditated on it... God spoke to me.. His word says in Psalms 103:12.. He promises to remove our sins from east to west.. at the same time, sin leaves a scar that is real and can have a powerful impact on our hearts. In the Bible, over and over again God shows us people, who chose rebellion and bare the scare to tell the story. Eve ate the fruit and was banished from the garden, had hard childbirth and then her son killed her other son. Talk about dysfunctional family! Then David, a man after God's own heart, lost a child, conceived out of adultery, deceit and murder...There are real consequences from sin and rebellion.... The Great News is.. We are never too far from God's faithful love ,His abundant compassion and never to far from His blotting out my rebellion.. We can repent, and turn away from our sins and cling to God and his forgiveness, his mercy and Love!
We could let our wounds DRIVE us from Him or We can let Jesus take the wheel and take our hand, remembering what He has done for us and saved us from!!!

Friends don't let Friends drive or live sleepy, they point them to the ONE ,who never Sleeps nor Slumbers!!! Let Jesus take your the Wheel!