Jesus take the wheel

Jesus take the wheel
Brett James, Hillary Lindsey, and Gordie Sampson wrote the song in 2005. James initially didn't think much of the song, and it was almost cut from the demo session
The song was released on October 18, 2005 as the first single from Underwood's debut album, Some Hearts
The song was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for six weeks. It also charted on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs and Billboard Adult Contemporary charts, and was a top twenty hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
Meaning
The song is about a young, single mom who loses control of her car on icy roads while driving home for Christmas. She prays for Jesus to "steer" her life, and in response, she surrenders to Christ.
Influence
The song's success led to the phrase "Jesus take the wheel" becoming a part of popular lexicon. It's used as both a serious and light-hearted plea for help
Biblical Reality 1
God requires absolute dependance, trust and surrender.
Luke 9:62
Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
Matthew 16:25
For whoever wants
to save their life
will lose it, but
whoever loses
their life for
me will find it.
Matthew 6:24
24 “No one can
serve two masters. Either you will hate
the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one
and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Deuteronomy 8:17
You may say to
yourself, “My power
and the strength of
my hands have
produced this
wealth for me.”
Biblical Reality 2
Surrender is not an event it is a constant connected, submissive lifestyle
Christ Centered
Galatians 2:20
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Spirit led
Romans 8:14
For as many as
are led by the
Spirit of God,
they are the
sons of God.
John 15:15
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
John 17:21
that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭12‬:‭2‬
Bible Bases
If Jesus is
Not everything
He is not
Anything