During the third week of July our church gets transformed. It's not a spiritual transformation per se. Instead, it is a physical metamorphosis into whatever Vacation Bible School theme that Answers In Genesis comes up with that year.
Last year we explored God's creation with an Australian makeover. This year's theme was mideival in nature as we learned about the full armor of God, as listed in Ephesians 6.
"Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." - Ephesians 6:14-17
My friend Chuck and I thought we were all done preparing our lessons for the upcoming week until one of the other teachers came up with an idea - a 7' x 8' working mideival gate .... made out of duct tape.
Have you ever tried sticking two pieces of duct tape together, face-to-face, perfectly? I am here to say it cannot be done. But we did our best, and it worked! As a bonus, Chuck and I are still friends today! Lol!
Another thing about duct tape is that it has so many uses. We needed to secure a poster to it's support. Duct tape! A makeshift styrofoam "television" to a table. Duct tape! A wild 10-year old to his chair. Well, we just thought about it. Maybe.
My point is this: duct tape can be used to fix just about anything. Except us humans.
We need Jesus to do that. None of us is perfect, but He is. When God looks at us on judgement day, all He is going to see is His Son, Jesus. That's because we have been made righteous by our faith in Him.
Duct tape is good for many things here on earth but it's going to take something, someone, REALLY special to fix our sin problem. The King of Kings.
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