What’s the good in a speed limit sign?
To slow us down, right? To encourage us to drive slow and energy efficient cars.
After all, isn’t that why the U.S. federal government instituted a nationwide 55 MPH speed limit during the Arab Oil Embargo during the 1970s? To save gas?
Well, yes, but speed limits were in effect before the embargo, and once the oil supply turned around, speed limits jumped to a higher level than before. You can legally drive 85 in parts of Texas, and 80 in Utah, Nevada, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
And our cars can now be tuned to get better mileage at 80 than at 55 fifty years ago.
So, why have speed limits at all?
Let’s look at today’s verse and then turn the verse back to our question.
Jeremiah 32:39 tells us:
“Then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them.” (NKJV)
See, the limits placed on us are “for the good of them and their children after them.”
In September of 2025, a man in Georgia driving a competition-tuned BMW tried to outrun the police. His BMW was designed to efficiently operate at high speeds, yet when he rounded a curve approaching 120 MPH, his tires could no longer hold their grip, and he slammed head-on into a minivan. The sad thing? The BMW vaulted into a tree and burst into flames. The driver didn’t survive.
That’s us without God’s guiding care. His rules are to keep us on the road, to offer us protection, and to ensure that we complete life’s journey.
That driver could have accepted being stopped and issued a ticket, and he would have lived to drive another day.
We can accept God’s guidance and correction and continue to live under his divine protection and blessing.
Choose God today. He offers life unto us.
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