“This morning driving in, I was thinking about how God really is in everything.
He is sovereign over everything. Scripture says that all things were created by Him, through Him, and for Him—nothing is outside His hands, not even my messy commute.
Driving in this morning, my windshield was covered in bug splatter and grime. I could still technically see, but every bit of sun glare turned those little spots into big distractions. My husband keeps reminding me I need washer fluid, need to use it more and my windshield is so dirty he can’t see out it, but it hit me that my heart and spirit works the same way.
Every day, stuff hits our ‘spiritual windshield’—’spiritual lens’ stress, compromise we call ‘no big deal,’ bitterness we never deal with, constant noise.
We’re still moving, still going to work and church, but the view of God and what’s actually true gets more and more smeared.
We start wondering why everything feels confusing and heavy, why we can’t see what God is doing. But bug guts and road grime aren’t my deepest problem.
The truth is, without the blood of Jesus I don’t even have a way to be clean. The cross is where the real washing starts.
We don’t just need a little positivity or a reset; we need to actually receive what Christ did for us, let His blood wash over our sin, and let His Spirit make us new.
Then, day after day, the Holy Spirit and the Word of God are our wipers and washer fluid. They don’t change the fact that we’re driving through a messy world, but they keep the mess from crusting over our vision.
As we stay in the Word and stay surrendered to the Spirit, He keeps wiping away what hits us so we don’t slip back into driving blind.
And here’s the wild part: God is sovereign over all of it. The same God who made the sun that glares on my dirty windshield is the One using a messy commute to tap me on the shoulder.
When we actually want to see Him, when we seek Him with real hearts, He lets us find Him—in bug splatter, in windshield wipers, in traffic, in hospital rooms, in ordinary Tuesdays.
Nothing is random. If you’ll ask Him, the Holy Spirit will use even the little things in front of you today to turn your eyes back to Jesus.
If you feel stuck, foggy, or lukewarm right now, it might not be that God walked away. It might be that your washer fluid is low. Come back to the cross.
Open your Bible. Ask the Holy Spirit to wash your mind and heart again. Let Him clear the glass so you can see Jesus clearly and follow Him without guessing.”
From my morning commute to from Salem Indiana to Louisville, Kentucky. Sunnye