Being Rescued From Disaster
Posted by Jeff Jackson at 9:58 pm
There are lots of joys of being a dad. There is something that is unexplainable when my daughter shows her reliance on me. Recently my daughter woke up from her nap in a very different way. She usually cries when she wakes up but this time she had a bit of angst in her cry. Upon hearing her cry I quickly walked into her room and saw something that I was not prepared for. My daughter stood at the corner of her bed with her little arms stretched as far has she could reaching for someone to save her. I scanned her crib to survey the situation and I found her diaper lying in the middle of her bed and poop everywhere. I forgot to put her pants back on her after I changed her diaper before putting her down for bed and the result of my mistake was a mess! My daughter starts to whine louder because I did not remove her immediately from the situation. My daughter was helpless. Even though it was her mess she could not clean up the situation. That is exactly how our lives are before we enter into a relationship with Jesus Christ. There are three things that i realized from this poppie mess, I realized that we
1. We don’t need encouragement - I could have really encouraged my daughter. “Come on Addison you can clean up your mess!” Same goes for our lives. Although encouragement makes us feel good it doesn’t help us clean up the mess we have made of our lives.
2. We don’t need self help - My daughter didn’t need a 10 step program to cleaning up poop. All though self help programs seem appealing to help clean up our lives…the fact is that they will always come up short because of one key work “self”
3. We need to be rescued - There was only one way my daughter was getting out of that messy situation, I had to rescue her. Just like my daughter the only way you will ever clean up your life is to allow Jesus to rescue you from a situation that is destined to produce failure and we can only be cleaned up if Jesus has our heart.
No matter what situation you find yourself in the only answer is to allow yourself to be rescued. To learn more about allowing Jesus to rescue your life click here.
