sufficient for me

I got lucky on the weekend. Big time lucky. I got a ticket, probably the best ticket I could ever have received. And by now you're probably wondering what kind of ticket this is. Well it was a speeding ticket issued by our local constabulary.
Yeah, that's right, I got busted for being sixteen K's over the speed limit, and it's the best thing.
You're probably thinking "wow this guy is screwed up. Shouldn't he be hacked off because he got a ticket?". Well, no I'm not hacked because this ticket has reminded me of a few important things.

1: I'm blessed that I'm not dead!
yeah, that's right. I'm blessed to receive this ticket because it reminds me that God has been gracious enough to let me stay alive. I've gone much faster than the speed that I was doing when I got caught and it's not something I'm proud of, and it have been so easy for something to have gone wrong and me ended up wrapped around a tree. How's that for being an idiot. God gives me all these opportunities and I go and flaunt it by pushing the pedal. Scoffing in the face of everything that God is trying to do in my life and he still says "I love you, and I forgive you for being a total goose".

2: I'm responsible
Yeah, it reminded me of what I agreed to. the responsibilities that I agreed to when I signed the form and paid my $55 dollars to get my licence. I'm not paying for my right to drive, I'm paying for the privilege. Along with the privilege comes the responsibilities. The privilege of scooting around the planet in a 1.5 tonne car comes with the responsibilities of driving in a way that won't endanger the people around me. If I can't handle that and choose to flout those limits then I need to cop the consequences, be it a $150 fine or losing the licence, or the guilt of a life hanging over my head.

3: God's grace is sufficient.
God's grace doesn't change what I did. It doesn't make what I did right. It doesn't mean that I should keep doing it just because it absolves my sin. I am blessed that God decided that he would take my sin away no matter what I do. It doesn't mean that I should go around and speed all the time because it's taken away. Anything but. The good thing that even though we might try our hardest we all make mistakes and he forgives us without question.

Now I've just got to do whatever it takes to keep my driving in line. He's nailed me, now it's time for me to run with it.