Day 39 .......aargh to the I-99.

Day 39 and another ride up and down the wonderful I-99. Yuck but I lived. Too bad that my "walk around Paris" (Day 38's blog) was really a drive down the worst freeway in CA!
Yet as you drive the 99 you pass thousands of people. I remember driving through Texas and every 100 miles you passed a small town of maybe 400 people. Driving through California every 20 miles you pass a city of 80,000 or 200,000. From Reedley to Stockton you pass by just on the million mark number of people (not counting all the smaller communities east or west of the road). How many of them know Christ? How many have hope? How much has the Kingdom of God invaded these communities? The questions could go on about every community and any true/real/effective testimony for and to Christ each mile of the 200 miles you drive.

As I drove the 99 today, as I passed cars or as they zipped past me (driving if not illegally, certainly stupidly) I looked at the faces of the drivers and wondered at their story and wondered if they'd ever had a chance to hear the truth about the Gospel - in a way that was true and real, and void of the junk that too often clutters and pollutes the Gospel.

I prayed for many of them, and I began to wonder how better we could reach more people. Some thing stirred. Some thing that has been stirring for a few months now. A despite my preference, despite my hope, it feels like I could driving the 99 for many more years to come. Aargh!!!!!!!