The Handyman Can

Suppose you have a car.  A super-nice car the coolest Car Saleman ever sold to you.  It is your dream car.  Got the image of it sitting in your drive way now?  Ok.

So, along you come, and you throw a rock, about two-inches in diameter, at the windshield, and you break the windshield.  It breaks through your beloved car's windshield.  It is a smaller hole, but the entire winshield is ruined, nonetheless.

Now, rewind.  Your windshield is back to perfection... except you launch a cinder block through it this time.  It ruins the entire windshield.  Differently than the smaller rock, but the same in the fact that, hey, you just royally jacked up your beloved car.

This is the same as our lives.  We have these precious bodies and our lifetimes to love, be loved, and do God's will.  Yet with our sin, even the smallest of sin, we ruin our entire lives and purposes.  The hole may be smaller for you and bigger for another person, but whether you cheated on your last test or brutally murdered an old man for his wallet, you have something in common with everyone.  We are all RUINED. Check out Romans chapter 5 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans%205&version=NASB)  So, sweat the "little sins."  Keep watch. Keep yourself in check at all times.  Have an accountability friend who will let you know when you are messing up.  And rely on God... He can fix your state of being ruined.

For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.


For He who said, "DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," also said, "DO NOT COMMIT MURDER." Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.


So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

                             -James 2:10-13

Counting on 1

So it had been a while
But I decided to practice my counting.

As soon as I began
I realized something had been wrong.

It was tough at first
Because it had been too long since I had studied.
It slowly came back to me
That my numbers I was to study with were out of order!

6 somehow got in front of 4
And 10 swapped places with 3

Soon I noticed they were all distorted
And it tragically came to my attention
That 1 was no longer in Its rightful place.

1 had always been the most important
And who else should have first place, other than Itself?
After all, 1 had been there all along... right in the front.

2 and 3 had even began to notice how 1 had slipped
1 had even downgraded lower than they had.
And soon, 2 through 10 began to revolt!
I felt horrible, and gently let down the other numbers
As if explained how 1 was more important, despite their feelings

I am glad they had revolted
Cause although their revolt seemed bad
It soon became a noticeably good thing.

Now I’m doing swell!
All cause I spent a few minutes studying.

If I put it off any longer,
There is no telling what the other numbers would have done!

I am certainly glad 1 forgave me so quickly.

God as a Crutch

Think about it... who needs a crutch?  Some one who is crippled in some way, right?

"There is none righteous, not even one." Romans 3:10

Do you wonder why God seems so far away?  Or even nonexistent?

"But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear." Isaiah 59:2

There are many ways and religions to turn toward, or you can even choose nothing, and remain neutral and not be involved in anything.

"There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death."  Proverbs 14:2

Do you believe truth is relative and all roads lead to the same place?

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through me." Jesus in John 14:6

What are you doing about all of this?

"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23

I have heard it said many, many times that Christ is just a crutch for weak people.  Well, He is the crutch for weak people.  You and I have this in common...

"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23-24

I am not writing this to preach about doomsday, rather, I am saying that there is a way to escape everything that is, was, and will be bad.  There is a way out of this turmoil.

"These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace.  In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have over come the world." Jesus in John 16:33

There is a way out, and God can be that crutch, because if you swallow your pride, you will realize sooner or later that you need a crutch.

"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8

"For God so loved that world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." John 3:16

"For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, in order that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh but made alive in the Spirit." 1 Peter 3:18

"If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation." Romans 10:9-10

"And the witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.  He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.  These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life." 1 John 5:11-13

Hit me up with any feedback.  It is greatly appreciated.
(originally posted from Billonie Sandwich)