Our basketball goal is broken.
Our next door neighbor’s goal is good, unused but the pole is bent. So I
made the offer to get rid of it for him if we could have the rim. DEAL!
Well, riding to Lowe’s we noticed the exact pole we needed in a backyard
dug up and still in concrete. I stopped
and offered to break that one up as well for the pole. DEAL!
THEN THE WORK BEGAN!!!
We thought a few licks with the sledge hammer would do the trick, but we
were in for hours of drilling and tapping to get the concrete off. We worked several hours Saturday and some
Sunday afternoon and finished Monday night with both poles. We are now set for
digging a new hole, pouring new concrete and soon enjoying a really good
remodeled basketball goal in our driveway.
Here was our lesson.
Sin clings to us like hard cement on a pole. Sometimes through the pounding from a friend,
big pieces fall away. More often, it
takes the constant drilling, pecking, chiseling of a brother friend to piece by
small piece rid ourselves of what clings to us. The pole has its responsibility
as well. It must let go. Several times I noticed pieces falling away
that had no bearing on our work, they just fell away. By the time you are reading this, hopefully
in my driveway, a brand new creation will stand tall and firmly grounded as a
testimony of a life renewed and no longer as an eyesore.
“Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” Proverbs
27:17
Where, in the NT, do we read about anything remotely related to what you have in your blog? We don't but we do read about those who love the world and the things of this world like you do, Jas 4; 1Jn 2. You do not have the saving Love of the Father according to John because God's Love is only poured into hearts by God through His one Baptism that you will never receive as long as you believe in another one, Ro 1-5, especially Ro 5:5; Eph 4. Do you have any idea of the trouble that you are in?
ReplyDeleteThere is only one Baptism allowed in the New Covenant, given by the one Lord Jesus Christ Himself through repentance and the one Faith in His Righteousness that is revealed in the Gospel, Mk 1; Ro 1; Eph 4; etc. This is the Righteousness from God that we must all seek first, find with God's Help and believe in, have the one Faith in, and declare through God's Power and for His Glory, Mt 3-7; Ro 1-6; Eph 4. These two sentences summarize the true saving Gospel. This is the only Way that adults with access to the Scriptures will be saved. All who die as false Christians, heretics, anti-Christs will never leave the Lake of Fire for being guilty of blasphemy against God's Holy Spirit Baptism.
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