I love to travel.  One of the experiences in travel that I enjoy is riding in taxi’s & uber.  What a unique experience.  Each one different.  Over the years I have found one thing fairly consistent in taxi cabs, and that is the dashboard icons.  There are several that are popular, Mary and Jesus being the two most prominent I see in my travels.

One of my old bosses had a dashboard icon on his VW truck.  It is a hula girl.  Kind of like a bobble head, she actually does the hula dance when he drives.  He loves Hawaii, and often tries to vacation there when possible and would love nothing more than to be there living.  Why the Hula girl on the dash.  He says it serves as a reminder.  Why the dashboard Jesus or Mary?  Probably the same thing.

Why do we need reminders? I think we all find ourselves busy, sometimes entangled in the now and loose sight of what the goal is.  My old boss keeps that in front of him, thinking about Hawaii every time he heads down the road.

I like how the Apostle Paul put it in 1 Corinthians 9:24 – 27 “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.”

In other words, Keep Your Focus! What are some of your personal dashboard icons you have in your life? Are they things that keep you focused on the goal?

Hebrews 12:1-2 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,  looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Philipians 3:12 – 14 “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.  Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus..”