I have a confession to make- I am not handy around the house. Yes, I can do some things, but only if they are not complicated. And, sometimes even the simplest of things can drive me crazy; like this problem. Phillips head screws often will get stripped and if that happens, then what do you do? This picture has a good answer to that problem- something as simple as a rubber band. It works, believe it or not; it really does.
Question: What do you do when you have a problem that you simply cannot solve? Ask for advice or directions or perhaps post a question on a social website? OK, you do that, but no one has an acceptable solution, then what? You find an expert and ask again. Still no answer, well, you get a friend to solve your problem or pay someone to do it for you.
Another Question: But what if you question is spiritual in nature? Do you go to a priest or a spiritual leader and ask that person? What if that person’s answer just doesn’t solve your problem? Then what?
Answer: Go to Jesus, there is absolutely nothing he can not solve, nothing beyond his power, for all authority in Heaven and on Earth has been given to HIM! ( Matthew 28:18ff.) Consider the following passage…
Hebrews 4 ( World English Bible )
14 Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
15 For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
The rubber band fix works fine, but in spiritual matters we need Jesus. No other person on the planet can do what HE has done; offer himself for your sin. Not just a little sin, but anything you can think of. Any sin can be forgiven and you can enter Heaven if you truly repent. Now, the consequences of what you have done will still have to be dwelt with in the here and now, but Heaven can be had by all who truly look to Jesus for salvation and obey HIM.
I wonder- Jesus was a carpenter by trade; I wonder what he would have done to solve the problem of stripped screw?
Foolish me, they didn’t have Phillips head screws in the first century!