Pastor Wayne Jensen
November 1, 2011
Do you remember those old movies that involved a person falling into quicksand? I remember old movies where some unfortunate individual would accidently get into quicksand. They would get stuck in what looked like gooey muck on screen even though quick sand is really very fine particles of very dry sand. When one is caught in quick sand, the more one struggles - the more one tries to get out on their own - the further down you sink. In the movies the struggle would go on until the person disappeared and only their hat was left on the surface.
That's pretty much how it works when we think we are going to find our way in life by our own efforts. The more we think it's going to be somehting we can do for ourselves, the more elusive solutions in life will be and the ffurther we will find oursleves sinking.
In fact, remember how in some of the old western movies, the person did get out of quicksand? His trusty "pardner" would ride up just in the nick of time and throw him a rope and pull him to safety. Sometimes he even had to use his horse to provide the muscle with the rope tied to the saddle horn. Either way, the only way to escape the quicksand was for someone else to come and save him.
That is exactly what our Lord Jesus does for us, isn't it? That is exactly why His love is beyond imagination. He has come along to rescue us from the quicksand of our rebellion and sin - to save us from the very idea that we can live our lives apart from God or save ourselves.
Paul wrote to the Christians in Rome to say, "God shos His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." He lived the perfect life that God looks for in us, but we cannot provide. He gave His life to pay the price of our sin. He did it all for us because we could not do it for ouselves. Truly, "To God be the glory! Great things He has done!"
Pastor Wayne Jensen
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