You don’t have to look far these days to find some magazine or newspaper article or lifestyle programme about keeping yourself healthy and avoiding every sickness and condition from the common cold to heart disease, diabetes and overweight. All kinds of advice is given, some standard and some quite alternative. Most of the experts would agree that the basics for good health are a healthy diet, plenty of water, and sufficient and regular exercise and sleep. Great for this Earthly life but what about eternal life? Strangely very few recognise or mention spiritual food, what I call in this son, ‘Jesus Fuel’. How good would it be to see a lifestyle programme include this as one of the basics, even the most important of all? Let’s face it. There are lots of spiritual diseases out there ready to infect us, all threatening eternal death. And eternity is so much longer than this life. Matt 6:31-33, 1 Peter 2:2, Matt 4:4, Acts 20:32, John 6:35-40.
If you’re driving along and you run out of fuel
And your car stops dead.. you feel like a fool.
Everybody knows the golden rule;
You can’t get anywhere without some fuel.
If you start your day without food in your tummy
By the middle of the day you’re feeling kind of crummy
Everybody knows the golden rule;
You can’t get anywhere without some fuel.
You can’t get through your day without some fuel.
Refrain
Life’s in a rush, quite crazy it seems,
no time to find the time to do the right thing.
But don’t forget your priorities
Or you’ll find you’ll be crawling on your knees.
You can’t go through your day without drinking something wet
It’s no excuse to say you just forget
Everybody knows the golden rule;
You can’t get anywhere without some fuel.
You can’t get through your day without some fuel.
You won’t feel so good without some fuel.
If you go through the night without getting much sleep
By the middle of the day you’ll be feeling like a creep.
Everybody knows the golden rule;
You can’t get anywhere without some fuel.
You can’t get through your day without some fuel.
You won’t feel so good without some fuel.
You just won’t survive without some fuel.
Refrain
If you go through your day without Jesus in your life
And you get into trouble or you get into strife
It’s a bit like walking on the edge of a knife
without Jesus in your life.
If you go through your life with Jesus in your day
With a little bit of Bible and a little bit of pray
Fuel to keep you going along the way
Your life is gonna be OK
Your life is gonna be OK
Refrain X 2
There’s one thing in your life that’s without a doubt
Jesus is the fuel you can’t do without.
Everybody knows the golden rule;
You can’t get anywhere without Jesus fuel.
You can’t get through your day without Jesus fuel.
You won’t feel so good without Jesus fuel.
You just won’t survive without Jesus fuel.
C. Chris Jaensch 2011