Me:  Nice car Prodigal!

Prodigal:  Thanks,  I am going to take a nice drive in the country!

Me:  While we are driving, I will share a story about automobiles.

 

This is from the book Growing Deep in the Christian Life by Chuck Swindoll

 

Many, many centuries ago, all this iron, glass, rubber, plastic, leather, and wires came up out of the ground.  Furthermore, each substance fashioned itself into various shapes and sizes….and holes evolved at just the right places, and the upholstery began to weave itself together.  After a while threads appeared on bolts and nuts and —amazing as it may seem–each bolt found nuts with matching threads.  And gradually everything sort of screwed up tightly in place.   A little later correctly shaped glass glued itself in the right places.  And you see these tires?  They became round over the years.  And they found themselves the right size metal wheels.  And they sort of popped on.  They also filled themselves with air somehow.  And the thing began to roll down the street.

And one day, many, many years ago–centuries, really–some people were walking and they found this vehicle sitting under a tree.  And one of them looked at it and thought, “How amazing.  I think we should call it automobile.  But there’s more!  These little automobiles have an amazing way of multiplying themselves year after year…even changing ever so slightly to meet the demands of the public.  Actually, that process is called “automutations.”

 

Maybe these people should believe in Jesus instead!

 

Ezekiel 6:13

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org