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Turning the speed limit

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Today is my birthday, and today I turn the speed limit. Well, with all the various speed limits, maybe I should say that today I turn another speed limit.

Turning another speed limit makes me think about an interesting story found in Joshua 14 about another guy who turned the speed limit, although you can only find his speed limit on a 41-mile stretch of highway in Texas between Austin and San Antonio.

At 85 years old, Caleb turned to Joshua and said, “I am as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel and fight as well as I could then. So give me the hill country that the Lord promised me.” (Joshua‬ ‭14:11-12‬)

Now I’ve got quite a few more trips around the sun before I turn that speed limit, but my prayer is that, like Caleb, I would speed up instead of slowing down the longer I live.

Today, there are still mountains to climb and battles to fight and land to take back from the enemy. Today, I am thankful for the years of faithfulness I’ve experienced, and I am hopeful for the years of faithfulness that I am yet to experience.

Today, I turn the speed limit and that means I get to push the gas even further to the floor. Here we go!

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March 19, 2021by Paul Jenkins
Written by Paul Jenkins
Paul Jenkins is lead pastor of The Gathering, a community church located in beautiful downtown Albemarle, North Carolina. He's the author of God is My Air Traffic Controller and My Name's Not Lou. Paul is passionate about his wife, his 3 children, running, reading, coaching, leading people who are following Jesus, Swedish Fish and the Carolina Panthers.