One of our friend’s first grader has proudly learned to spell the word “zebra.” Pleased with her phenomenal new accomplishment, all by herself she sent her teacher an email exhibiting her new spelling skill. The wonder of it all was the word “zebra” was the only word in the email that was correct! It’s a masterpiece I hope her parents save forever.
Every once in awhile lightning strikes and we do something right. Another friend (I really do have lots of friends.) asked me why we so often get things wrong. The answer is there is only one way to get something right but a hundred ways to get it wrong.
I know a guy (not my friend) who is nearing retirement and likes to brag about all the people he has baptized during his ministry. If one believed all his stories one would think he was Billy Sunday, Billy Graham and John Wesley blended into one. I don’t know, maybe he is telling the truth and I’m just jealous I can’t tell such wonders. I just hope that somewhere in all the misspellings of my life I spelled something right at least once. In God’s eyes I want to be that first grader. I want to spell “zebra.”
But even if I didn’t it doesn’t matter. Jesus is still my (our) Savior, because we aren’t saved by doing everything or just one thing right. We are saved by grace. Wait just a moment. There is something we need to do right. We need to accept His gift and tell Him “thank you.” Yeah. There is one thing we need to do right and letting Him save us is the rightest thing we could ever do.
Written by Roger Bothwell on September 22, 2009.
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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