Life in the fast lane

Hi there,
I hope that you're having a nice day.
It's a great day here in Dunedin.
It is sunny, warm, and  I've got my coffee.
Today I want to talk to you about life in the fast lane.
I bumped into a friend, the other day in Kmart, and we were talking oh about a whole lot of things.
Cars was one of them.
I just brought a new car, which is great, it's red, and it's got all the things I need. plus I got a thousand dollars off the listed price, because the car dealer listed it wrong on his website it's 2009, and it's a jap import and Glenda has only done 33 thousand ks, so the right time to buy a new car came up.
I've called her Glenda, because if she was a lady, she would wear red lipstick and bright red nail polish.
So I'm selling my starlet.
My friend told me, who I saw in Kmart, told me this funny story, about a very wealthy Japanese man, who owned a really fast racing car, he only took it out on weekends.
So the makers in Italy got hold of him, and asked him to see if he would like a run around their track, that they test their racing cars on, in Italy.
They hired a rally car driver, to get in with the man and explained everything, and told him to go fast to give the makers of this particular car a good work out.
The hired man jumped out of the car and let the japanese man go around.
The man, put this racing car in 1st gear and went around the track.
This car could go faster than 1st gear.
He then went up to the japanese man, and asked him, why he went around in 1st gear, the japanese man, looked at him, and said ''that is how every japanese man drives in Japan.''
Sometimes it feels like we're not going fast enough in life.
Sometimes we feel like we're just in the slow lane, waiting for something to happen.
Or perhaps you know you've got something big on your hands but it feels like you're going around in 1st gear.
No matter what you're going through, God is there, there's no condemnation, there's no pointing finger, there's no guilt in Jesus.
Sometimes God makes us move, and sometimes we need to get off and make that move for ourselves.
We need to come to Christ ourselves, not through a count down of a pastor at church, to raise your hand on the count of 3.
Jesus is everywhere and he'll care for your needs, and we just need to cast our needs on him.
Casting is a fishing term.
When fishermen cast out, they nets, the mean business. They are eager to catch a catch, for them to sell the fish from their boats so that they can make money to live.
We all need to get perspective on things, and perhaps we need to do a bit of ''casting'' in our own lives.
Cut back when needed, go in the slow lane, when needed.
I hear you say you can't ''it's impossible'' I don't have the time, but my friends we do.
If we have 2 minutes in our cars, we can pray, we have 5 minutes to catch up on people that care, we have time and that's not impossible.
Don't be so afraid to say I can't.
Because when God's part of our lives we can.
So don't live so much in the fast lane, that you can't live.
Chloe