The motor home has allowed us to put all the conveniences of home on wheels. A camper no longer needs to contend with sleeping in a sleeping bag, cooking over a fire, or hauling water from a stream. Now you can park a fully equipped home on a cement slab in the midst of a few pine trees and hook up to a water line, a sewer line, and electricity. The newest motor homes have multiple flat screen tvs, internet, and microwaves. No more smoke from the fire, no more drudgery of walking to the stream.

We buy a motor home with the hope of seeing new places, of getting out into the world. Yet we deck it out with the same furnishings as in our living room. So, nothing really changes. We may drive to a new place and place ourselves new surroundings, but the newness goes unnoticed, for we've carried along our old setting.

The adventure of new life in Christ begins when we leave the comfortable patterns of our old life behind.