Sandra Bullock is a renowned actress with dozens of movies to her credit. In 2000 she starred in 28 Days, a movie about a writer living in the fast lane whose wild partying gets her thrown into court-ordered rehab.
She has to learn to shake her addiction off and find a new life in a more orderly world.
What’s our fast lane? We can recognize it easily enough. What do we think about long after the lights are out? What are we willing to spend our money on? What is important enough to us that we slight our spouse and our children to give it our time?
The trouble with the fast lane is that we get caught up in it, and soon, it carries us along, taking us to places we never intended to go.
In 28 Days, Ms. Bullock’s character makes an insulting toast at her sister’s wedding, knocks over the wedding cake, and borrows the couple’s limousine to search for a new cake, only to crash the car into a house.
She certainly never intended that to happen.
We never intend to go bankrupt by wasting our money, and divorce often hits us broadside. No one says their marriage vows, intending to throw it all aside in the future. We get caught up in events, and things happen from there.
Sometimes rehab is the only answer.
1 Peter 5:7 tells us how to make the first move.
“Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
That’s Step #1. However, we’ve only stepped through the door. There’s more.
2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us we must commit totally.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
We must walk away from our previous life. We can’t remain in the fast lane and expect our stint in rehab to change us.
Galatians 5:22 tells us what we can expect to achieve with God.
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.”
2 Corinthians 9:8 tells us we have support once our rehab is complete.
“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.”
Ms. Bullock’s character had to cast all her old friends aside, she had to change how she lived, and she had to refuse to walk in the fast lane. She had to let rehab change her. When we let God change us, we will become new in him, and our lives will change for the better.
We decide to be changed, and God becomes our strength along the way.
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