Put Jesus in the Equation

How many of you have had to untangle a fully tangled up ball of twine?  Well, one thing you can do if the material is a synthetic is perhaps soak it in water to make it more slippery.  And if it is made of cotton or other organic cordage, you don’t want to soak it cause all it would do is swell, just would have to do the best you could to separate and untangle the stuff.  Course if it is damaged, and you want to redeem at least some of the twine, then you have more to do.  You would have repair work also.   But untangling a tangled mess of twine is a time consuming job, isn’t it. 

Well, how about your life or mine?  How much of our lives is like a tangled ball of twine?  One thing you can do to help yourself get untangled is soak yourself in the word of God.  And if that isn’t enough, perhaps you need to take yourself apart piece by piece and slowly unravel yourself by self analysis thru the Word of God.   And if there is lots of damage in your life, you have a bigger job because then there is repair work to do. 

Well, if you are the ball of tangled twine, you need help, don’t you?  And who better than Jesus to do the job?  Put Jesus into the problem, into the equation, and He will show you not only what to do but how to do it.  You do need to soak yourself in the Word of God, but you also need to apply specific things and those things needed will be revealed to you by Jesus.  There are lots of people with damage in their lives-due to wrong ideas, beliefs that are untrue, abuse, ignorance, loss of somebody or something significant, and many other factors.  Well, who does the Word of God say is our healer?  Jesus of course!  He gives us believers guidance thru the Holy Spirit who is the spirit of Truth.  He gives us comfort thru the Comforter.  He gives us grace because of our faith.  He gives us everything we need and being the one who does that, well He can untangle us too. 

When we are in the midst of problems, Jesus needs to be put into the equation.  We need to ask for His  will, His help, His guidance, His strength, His comfort when needed, His patience, His love, His mercy, His peace, and even His joy.  And He will give all that besides the directions as to how to solve whatever the problem is or just how to handle the problem, or how to just go thru the problem till it is resolved.  No problem is too big for Jesus, no problem is too hard for Jesus. No problem is impossible for Jesus.  Believe Him, believe in Him, and obey out of faith that He can love you, lead you, guide you, direct you, and take care of the problem.  Just remember in all this--He is the untangler. 

One last thing to remember-sometimes God does not remove a problem because He wants to use it to fashion you and shape you.  Remember Paul had begged God three times for a “thorn in his flesh” to be removed.  This thorn was the “the messenger of Satan to buffet me-to keep me from exalting myself.”(NAS) So there may be some problems in your life God may never remove, but instead will use them to conform you to the image of His Son.  For references see II Cor 2:7 and Rom 8:29.  If that turns out to be the case, then praise God for His wisdom and recognize that His grace (as Paul had to recognize) is sufficient for you. 

May God bless you and give you a great weekend.  The Good News Lady