When we accept God'd grace and His Salvation through Jesus we are a mess of sin; like a mixed up Rubik's cube. Miss-matched colors all over.
Each move that gets the cube closer to solved is like each sanctifying move that God makes in your life to make you more like Him.
On vacation this week, my niece's Rubik's cube was on the table. I'd never been able to solve one, or ever really tried, for that matter. But I've always wanted to do it. One night when the kids were all playing and all they needed from me was to be in the room to supervise. I grabbed the cube and looked up some instructions online.
If you've never learned how to solve a Rubik's cube, as I suspect most have not, you start by solving the white cross and then the white corners before you move on to anything else. It's very systematic with very specific sequences of moves for each step. There's nothing haphazard about it.
At first I needed step by step instructions and I messed up a bunch of times. Eventually I got better and could do the whole thing without screwing up (still needing many of the step by step instructions). The Bible is our step by step instruction book. When we first decide to follow Jesus we screw up more often than we get it right, but over time, if we keep following those step by step instructions, maybe we screw up less and get it right more often. There are even times I get close to completing the cube that I mix up a move and mess up the whole thing. I have to go back several steps and fix what I messed up...It seems like we do that in life a lot too. But God will help us move things back where they need to be if we just repent and let Him move our pieces.
The cube cannot move from messy to complete by itself, it needs hands to move its mix of colors into place. We need God's hands to move our mess into place.
Our mixed-up cube won't be complete until Jesus returns, but each day He can move us closer and closer to completion if we lean into Him and His Word.
May we be every-reliant on Him.
note: I wrote this a year ago, but never published it. Not sure why. I logged into my blog for the first time since last year and saw this; thought I'd post it.
