Things were going along well at first. I sent in my license application. All filled out. I sent them some money. I thought I had covered all the bases. Nope. I received a letter back from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation telling me they needed more money. Figures. Fine.
So I sent them more money.
Then I got an e-mail from my "application specialist" requesting even more information. They wanted to make sure my "RV" had a bed and a sink, a toilet and a cooktop. It's not an RV if it doesn't have them I guess. So I wrote back and told my specialist friend that I had all those things. Well, I had most of them, sitting in the trailer. I immediately ordered the rest.
That still wasn't enough. I needed a special certification stamp from my trailer manufacturer. It had have some special wording and it had to be attached to the trailer. I had a document with the wording on it but it wasn't attached to the trailer.
Well, that's a problem apparently. Looks like I had come to the end of the line in my effort to get licensed. Ah, but I have read the Bible. I know all about Law vs Grace. The Law, in my attempt to get a license plate, was being played perfectly by the state DOT. All their rules and regulations were quite hard to live by.
But then along came my tiny house trailer manufacturer. My savior! When I confessed to them my struggles with the state, they went above and beyond the call of duty. I got this e-mail from them yesterday.
"We will get you one. Let me work out the details and I will let you know asap. What address would you like me to send it to? Sorry this has been such a pain for you but we will make it right.
Angel"
My trailer company is sacrificing its profit margin to get me right with the State of Wisconsin. And did you catch the name at the end of the trailer company's message? Angel! Are you kidding me?
We can never satisfy the requirements of God's law. There's too many rules. Besides, we are prone to break rules to begin with. Jesus said, "There is no one good."
Thank God for His grace and mercy!!
Without the grace of my trailer company I'd be up the creek without a license plate. But thanks to someone who exhibited grace and mercy, I just might make it to "the promised land."
I thanked the trailer company for their customer service. And I thank God for the sacrifice of His Son. Without that I wouldn't have met the requirements of getting into heaven - a sinless life.
We all will be given a "license plate" when we get to heaven. A name that no one knows except Jesus. But only those who are 100% perfect will get one. We are made perfect through our faith in Christ. Send in your application today!
"Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3 Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. 4 Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes." - Romans 10:1-4
Grace - Michael W. Smith
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