Hello, everyone. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. This is where John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's lesson. John, we're in sections 41 through 44 today, and you've told me to come to section 42 because you have a story. There's a phrase in here, thou shalt not be idle. He that is idle shall not eat the bread nor wear the garments of the laborer. But that idea of being idle.
What does that mean exactly? Well, soon after my wife and I were married, Hank, we had a couple of kids who kind of outgrew our car. Conan got a Toyota 4Runner, and we wanted to name it Elias. We thought that'd be funny if people went, oh, Elias was a 4Runner. Very scriptural vehicle. We want a license plate that said Elias. Somebody had already had the idea and taken it. This was great, but have you ever been up Parley's Canyon before, Hank?
kind of a grade that you have to go up. We'd put it on cruise control, you know, at 65 or whatever, but it just wouldn't make it. It was what people sometimes say, this car is gutless, you know, it doesn't have enough power. And then, okay, Hank. You know my son Matthew. It was time to have another. And we thought we need a minivan. And Kim wanted to postpone the evil minivan day as long as possible. Right. But we went.
And we got a Honda Odyssey at 2002, as I recall. Ooh, okay. You sold a lot of books that year. All right. It was used. Of course. to test drive it, went up Parley's Canyon with my wife. She said, what is this going to be like? I wonder if this will make it on crew. Went right up Parley Summit without coming out of cruise control.
I thought it was so awesome. When we got up there finally and we stopped at a stoplight and both had this impression. What's the word we use when an engine is running, but it's not delivering any power? That's idle, right? It's idling, yeah. And it was this great scriptural connection that we made. We had just come over Parley Summit.
And we both started talking about, whoa, those scriptures. Thou shalt not be idle. We came up with our own definition for being idle. Tremendous potential doing nothing. It was this engine just sitting there doing nothing. I knew that that was the term for an engine that was running before I knew it was a scriptural term to not be idle.
Thou shalt kind of sounds like a commandment, doesn't it, Hank? Right. Thou shalt not be idle. You can see the Lord saying, you're amazing. You're the Honda Odyssey. What are you doing sitting there? Yeah, you have this tremendous power and potential and you're sitting there doing nothing. Thou shalt not be idle.
That's what my Honda Odyssey taught me, Hank. Right. I love it. I think there's an old saying that says the idle mind is the devil's playground. People get in trouble when they have nothing to do, right? Just be too tired to sin. When Satan says, hey, come over here and sin. You're like, I would, but I'm exhausted. I'm too worn out. I've been busy all day. I love it. We hope you'll join us on our full podcast. It's called Follow Him. You can get it wherever you get your podcast.
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