Guarantee

I know the reason that Walmart sells two-year guarantee batteries and three-year guarantee batteries.  It’s because some folk want a better-quality battery.  But the question is how does Walmart know that a battery will last two years or three years?  I simply don’t know.  But they do.  I bought a two-year battery for my truck and it quit on me at two years and two weeks.  Oh yes it did!  But the manager at Walmart was a nice guy and he honored the two-year guarantee.  Hey, wouldn’t it be nice to have a lifetime guarantee battery?  Well, yeah!  Hey, there are very few lifetime guarantees, and your eternal life is one of them.  If you put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ, He will do what He said he would do.  He will take you all the way to heaven.  It’s like taking an airplane trip.  I don’t want to get MOST of the way to Europe on a plane; I want to get ALL the way to Europe.  Jesus doesn’t take us MOST of the way to heaven; He takes us ALL the way to heaven.  Jesus said in John 10:27&28, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish …”  Jesus has given us a life-time guarantee, not just a two-year guarantee.  If you do what Jesus says, He will take you all the way to heaven.  And you can count on it!

A Robe or a Blanket

I worked on a deck for a relative Saturday, and I came home tired and dirty.  I took a long shower and life looked much better.  My wife’s sister and brother-in-law were coming over for supper, but I was pleasantly surprised that I was wrong on the time.  They were coming over an hour later than I had planned.  I was clean, but still tired.  So, I laid down for a nap.  The air was on and my feet were cold, so I grabbed the nearest thing that I could reach: my wife’s robe that was at the foot of the bed.  But I just couldn’t seem to get both feet covered.  First, I had one foot covered with the robe, but then the other foot was cold.  Then I worked the robe around over the cold foot, but I had just uncovered the other foot.  But I was too cold and sleepy to get up and get a blanket.  Hey sometimes we try to make a robe work as a blanket, but it just doesn’t work.  Hey sometimes we try to do things in our spiritual life that are short-cuts too.  We get up late in the morning and don’t have time to spend with God.  We don’t have time to read God’s Word and get ready for Satan’s attacks during the day.  So, later in the day, because we aren’t prepared, we do things in the flesh and not as God would have us to do.  One thing goes wrong and then another thing goes wrong.  The day is a total disaster.  The trouble is not in the day, but in the lack of preparations in the morning.  Solomon said in Proverbs 8:17, “I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.”  Take the time to prepare for the day.  Get up early to meet with God.  Don’t shuffle around trying to make a robe into a blanket.  Short-cuts never work.  Do the time.  Prepare for the day, and you’ll be glad that you did.

Trouble

I often got into trouble in college.  Are you surprised?  One semester I lived in an old house dorm called Whitfield Hall named after the great evangelist by that name.  I was a sophomore and there were two upperclassmen who led me in the wrong way.  Don’t get me wrong, I could get into trouble all by myself.  But those two multiplied my trouble exponentially.  One Saturday night the subject of pizza came up.  I said, “I sure would like a pizza from Mr. T’s.”  Then Rudy said, “If you go get it, I’ll pay for it.”  Then Denny piped up, “If you go get it, I’ll let you drive my car.”  So I did.  I thought, “Those two are great friends.  One is paying for the pizza and the other one is letting me use his car.  Great friends!”  But then I got pulled over by the campus policeman.  It was after curfew.  THEY didn’t get into trouble; I got into trouble.  It was then that I realized that I was the chump, and Rudy and Denny were the users.  When I went to the demerit council, I was alone.  Rudy and Denny weren’t there with me because they were smarter than I was.  I was the sucker.  Solomon said in Proverbs 1:10, “My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.”  Algebra and Literature weren’t the only things that I learned in college.  I also learned what not to do and who not to listen to.  Actually, I’m still learning both of them. How about you?