October 22-24, 2010
Hebrews 7
Pastor Stan Wilson
In the spring of 1948 my parents, Charles Wilson and Elizabeth Branom, decided to get married. Charles met Elizabeth at “The Grille” in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where she worked as a waitress. When he first saw her, as the story goes, he told a buddy who had joined him for lunch that she was “going to be my wife.” He was right, and four fine children were produced from their union, all boys. Since I’m the youngest, just call me “boy number four.”
If you watched the Wilson boys in action, you would quickly learn that they were quite capable and felt right at home in the worlds of home and auto repair. Well actually, that isn’t completely true. While Wilson boys one, two and three can do almost anything from framing out a room addition to rebuilding an engine, Wilson boy number 4 (that’s me) finds all such tasks a bit daunting and challenging. While, at times, I am able to perform the simplest of home repairs, even those become quite costly and incomplete. With time, my meager repair jobs fail and professionals have to be called in to save the day. I’ve come to accept the fact that successful home repair isn’t my lot in life and that I need to depend on someone greater than myself.
Often I’ve made the same mistake in both my personal and spiritual life. Upon identifying places of the heart that are corroded and behaviors needing realignment, I set out - as if well-equipped - trying to mend the broken places through my own meager efforts. Just as with my home repair efforts, the simplest of personal repairs become costly and incomplete. Soon, my meager self-help attempts fail and I realize that I have to call in the Professional.
I’m so thankful that God has provided, through Jesus Christ, someone infinitely greater than me and more than able to save and restore completely, no matter how great the repair job may seem to be.
“Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because he always lives to intercede for them.” Hebrews 7:25
