Well, That Didn’t Work

By

B.J. Knefley

The other day I was installing a new garage door opener for my garage. After several days of work, searching the internet and rereading the manual, I could not for the life of me get it to work. I even called tech support and still couldn’t fix the problem. They did indicate that the problem might be in the circuit board. I got so frustrated I went and bought a brand new one just in case I had to swap the unit out. Finally in desperation I called my son-in-law. (Should have done that first.)

Within five minutes of his arrival, he had it running. What was wrong? What did he do that I hadn’t? I soon learned that it needed to be programmed. What? It’s a garage door, why does it need to be programmed? I’ve put in several openers over the years, and I had never had to do that. Well guess what? You do now. What was I thinking?

The problem for all of us, we all can fall into the situation where we don’t think through a situation or action. Thinking we know, we forage forward only to realize that we’re on a course that’s not going to be profitable. People do it all the time with all sorts of things. Some of those, in the scheme of eternity don’t mean much. But in the area of faith can have far reaching consequences.

I can’t tell you how many times that I’ve heard people talk about the things related to faith. Their ideas seem to be having been pulled out of never never land. The basis for their statements has no backing in anything other than what seems good to them. Interestingly, Isaiah prophesied, “These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands of God.” (Is a 29:13) I don’t know about you but I wouldn’t want to be scratching my head asking, “Well that didn’t work”, when I reach the end of my life. The time to get right on faith is now. Think about it.