Faith Minute® is a one minute program heard on dozens of stations across the country. Each weekday your host, Leith Anderson, shares an inspiring and practical message of hope, encouragement and challenge showing why 'living by faith' can be the most stretching, fulfilling and rewarding experience you will ever have.
January 11, 2012
Self-service gas stations are illegal in Oregon and New Jersey. Those of us in other states are used to pumping our own gas.
One time on a trip to Oregon I watched as people with out of state plates pulled into gas stations. Many of them, out of habit, would get out of their cars and start to fill their tanks. Soon the service station attendant would come running out and tell the driver to get back into the car while he pumped their gas. Some of the drivers were stunned. They’d always pumped their own gas.
Most of us value self-sufficiency, but in the spiritual realm it doesn’t work. Like Oregon and New Jersey, God doesn’t have self-service righteousness stations. The only righteousness available is that which God pumps into us. It’s his righteousness and he does the filling.
