When Your Brakes Fail (Call For Help)

I remember a few years ago, I was watching this show about a woman who was driving, and her brakes suddenly failed. She was going about 90kmph on the freeway and when she was approaching her exit, she decided to slow down by applying her brakes, but to her dismay, the car wouldn't stop. When she realized she was in trouble, she panicked began trying to turn off her engine while the car was in motion, but still to no avail. The car just kept moving.

In her desperation she finally picked her phone to call the police to report her predicament. She dialed 911 and she was asked of her exact location, which she gave, and within a few minutes a squad car pulled up close to her (thank God she was in America and not Ghana) lol. So to cut the story short, the driver squad car drove up ahead of her, entered her lane and skillfully helped her stop by allowing her car bump into his, whiles he applied his brakes after a while both cars came to stop.

This story is all too familiar in my life and the life of other believers. You might be enjoying the freeway of grace and get to the point where you begin to somehow take it for granted. You realize that you need to pump your brakes and take your exit but like this woman you brakes fail and now you are in a free fall to a destination you don't want to be. Like this woman most of us go about life believing in our 'cars' and 'brakes' ( ourselves and self-control).

We have confidence when it gets to the critical stage the 'brakes' of self-control will help us. But just like this woman's brakes our self-control fails us so many times ( i know mine has), next thing we know we missed our exit and to top it off, we realize we are in trouble and we can't stop. In our desperation we try to help ourselves but still nothing works, like the woman we try to switch off our engines but that too doesn't work and we keep going down.

When we find our brakes failing all we need to do is call for help, dial that help line. Luckily for us we have a saviour who is literally micro-seconds away and skillful in rescuing. In-fact His specialty is rescuing.
  Psalm 91:15 say " When you call to me, I will answer you. I will be with you when you are in trouble. I will save you and honor you."

When your brake (self-control) fails and you realize you are heading for trouble, don't panic and try to help yourself. Call For Help!!!