I HAVE A childhood memory of my father habitually (or so it seemed to me) driving his car with the gas tank gauge always signaling EMPTY…

Was it a subconscious game he played, a sort of gambling process he secretly played?

“Dad, you’re running on empty,” we would say.

“I know,” he would respond, “but when the needle gets to that point there’s always a gallon or two left in the tank.”

Perhaps my father was simply out of gas money and didn’t want to admit it.  I never found out.  I just remember there were too many worrisome journeys through scary places with the gas gauge silently screaming the tank is empty!  He never seemed perturbed by this.

Spiritually speaking, many followers of Christ run on empty most of the time and wonder why there seems to be no natural energy or passion to engage in spiritual life or work.  Is our tank full or empty?

“And David said with longing, ‘Oh, that someone would give me a drink of water from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!'”  1 Chronicles 11:17

Mike Benson