Dashboard Icons
I love to travel. One of the experiences in travel that I enjoy is riding in taxi’s. What a unique experience. Each one different. Over the years I have found one thing fairly consistent in 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.
My boss, has a dashboard icon on his VW truck. It is a hula girl. Kinda like a boble head, she actually does the hula dance when he drives. 
Over the years I have gotten to know my boss fairly well and count him among my list of friends. He loves Hawaii. 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 entagled in the now and loose sight of what the goal is. My 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 gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.”
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?
Phillipians 3:12 – 14 “Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
