Driving to nowhere into the deep night.
Denying the confession of helplessness.
Carrying a burden and heavy load
Of years of sin and selfishness.
Inevitably, I broke down.
I was defeated down to the core.
Like a lost and broken ship
At sea that at last ran ashore.
I cried out with a surrender,
‘Won’t someone help me?’
At first there was only silence,
But then I felt a fresh breeze.
Arising out of the moonless dark,
Light emerged from the distance.
The beams were moving towards me
With a purposeful insistence.
A truck with a cross-shaped tow
Rolled to a stop to my right.
A man from the window said,
“I heard you calling in the night.”
How can that be possible?
No one was around to hear.
“I’ve been waiting for this call
All your days and years.”
“Now that you’re in this place
And have called out to Me,
I’m here to take your burden.
There is no charge – it’s free.”
I don’t understand this offer.
Why would you be so kind?
“This is the business I’m in
Unburdening the heart and mind.”
“You only have one thing to do
Should you choose to receive.
If you want your load to be lifted
You must confess belief in Me.”
I looked at the sign on the truck,
‘Welcome to Salvation Tow.
Forgiveness is the power to lift
And reveal a God you can know.’
I thanked the man and accepted
His free offer I so desperately need.
What a deal of trading my burdens
For a life of forgiven belief!
Suddenly the sun arose.
The night surrendering to the day.
I joined the Driver in the truck.
Forever going His way.