We just bought a name brand washing machine, and it saves energy, is very fast, is huge, has all kinds of features, and does everything but won’t spin the water out of a twin (small) sized quilt. We bought the larger machine so we can wash our queen-sized quilts, but we had to call a repairman to come and make this new washing machine work!
That’s like what is happening with my wife’s car. We have a good car (Honda), with full coverage insurance from a reputable company. When I hit a deer in our neighborhood, I took the practically new car to the Honda dealer to get the best repairs. What could possibly go wrong?
I discovered my reputable insurance company wanted me to take pictures with their app for an initial estimate. I was sick, but this 66-year-old man crawled under my car trying to get the pictures. I finally called the insurance company in frustration. They told me the body shop could take the pictures and send in an estimate, so I took the car to the Honda dealer and asked them to work with the insurance company. A week later, I discovered nothing had been done. The repair shop and insurance company were waiting on each other to do something. After another week of frustrating calls, they seem to be making some progress. It seems nothing works like it’s supposed to.
There is a notable exception. Nothing works but GOD! How it all started, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good” (Gen 1:1-4 KJV). That wasn’t the beginning of GOD, but that was the beginning of the plan “the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world” (1 Peter 1:19-20 KJV) to die for our sins.
But so much has gone wrong since that time, so much death and destruction! GOD didn’t fail but the failures of man have proven that man can’t meet GOD’s standard. What is GOD’s standard? JESUS said, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (Mat 5:48 KJV) and yet “our righteousnesses are as filthy rags” (Isa 64:6 KJV) “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23 KJV). Which proves GOD’s plan is perfect!
His plan always has been, “God loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved” (John 3:16-17 KJV). But that plan isn’t working because “broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Mat 7:13-14)! “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6 KJV) and that perfect plan (JESUS) will take you straight through to the Father!
Wayne Lance – That’ Good News to Share!