Oil that keeps you going

*laughs* literally

God speaks to you sometimes in funny-till-u-wanna hit-your-own-head ways.

here's the story...

several weeks ago, my car would do sudden small jerks, especially going uphill..i thought it was nothing major because i assumed it was my clutch-accelerator-balancing-technique that wasn't good so such incidents were put aside. A week ago was gearing up for Asia Conference so a friend brought me to church for bus departure. My friend in turn took the car and brought it back to my apartment where the car engine suddenly died. Soon, i came back from Singapore and drove car back. I noticed that the car engine light was blinking but ignored it, thinking it was nothing important (warning: never ignore blinking red lights) A couple of days later, my friend and I were bored so randomly we decided to travel around KL and get lost (petrol 1.90 ^^). 

Drove around KL went to National Museum (interesting). Went to Mahathir's ex-house, used his toilets. Yeah, we were that random.

Got lost. Kinda.

4-5 days with the light blinking and car jerking now and then; by now surely a sane person would think something's wrong with the car, but no not Vincent Lai...until tonight, this night that i am blogging, i had the 'instinct' to notify dad and ask whether it's

 important (duh) and sure enough i found out that engine oil IS important. (sweat...literally) 

I checked the engine oil to see its level...It was COMPLETELY DRY. (Those of you like me who had a revelation in cars tonight, FYI, engine oil helps to keep the engine cool and make it run smoothly) Without it, the pistons and works of the engine would get rusty, dirty and

  spoilt. Repairs gonna be costly. I had extra engine oil in boot so added it in with cell leader's help. Hopefully tomorrow when i'm gonna check the car engine nothing's wrong. Might have a leak somewhere, oil filter, gasket. i am the clueless.

But lo behold, God speaks.

Was driving home after prayer meeting with cell group; i realised our own spiritual lives can be like that, God flickers warnings when we're 'absent' with of his 'oil'. When you run dry spiritually, and temptation sets in, God knocks and shouts "hey, be firm and stand strong" but like many of us we tend to 'ignore' it. So running dry and empty for a while would result with rustiness, dirtyness and being spoilt; likewise in the natural so is the spiritual.

This served as a good reminder and am so THANKFUL nothing's wrong so far with the car and i manage to drive safely these few weeks...

*phew*