Greetings,
Lyn and I bought a scooter--a Black Cat scooter. We love this thing because it gets 90 mpg.... I loved this thing until we got a flat tire last week--a nail! Like most of my projects, I told Lyn I'd be about 15 minutes getting the tire off and to the shop to fix the flat. Like most of my projects, two hours and a lot of "mumbling" later, I had the tire off this stupid possessed scooter. I found out I had to take off the whole fender and exhaust system to access the back tire. I wonder if the engineers who design these things ever ride them, let alone need to fix a flat tire. Somthing simple was grossly complicated.
I reflected on my frustration of tackling something that should have been so simple and finding out it was so complicated. As I study the book of Galatians, I find Paul bringing the church back to the purity and simplicity of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is not complicated. But like the Black Cat designers, we often take something so simple--the gift of salvation, and make it very difficult. We add some sort of human achievement to the mix and there is a mess. Paul preaches Christ crucified--nothing more and nothing less. Our saving faith is based on Christ crucified--nothing more and nothing less.
The gospel is simple. The gospel is God's gift to men and women and children. Let's not complicate it by trying to add human achievement. God sees us as his sons and daughters through the blood of Jesus Christ--nothing more and nothing less.
Our response? Thankfulness and joy and service to the King. Serve Him this day.
Blessings and joy,
Rob
1 comment:
Blogs, what a great way to express your innermost thoughts to the world without having to develop such relationships where people will listen to your every word and also it provides convenience such that I don't have to be there when such thoughts are being said and I can back-up and re-read it when I find my mind trailing off onto other less important subjects.
Wow, that was another one of those long sentences that my high school English teacher would have hit me for.
Maybe that's why I became an engineer. We're not quite as hated as lawyers for being able to suck the life out of a person by "Legal Injustices" but we sure can piss 'em off through the complicated nature of the job.
Anyway, I just wanted to say I enjoy reading your blogs. They usually begin with a commonality that occurs to most people i.e. scooters and how complicated it is to remove a tire for repair and then moving into how complicated the church of Galatia made the simple gift of Grace. That is all.
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