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Ben
and Daniel are in an inventing mood of late. Recently Ben made a "microscope"
using a paper towel tube, plastic wrap, tape, and rubber bands. He said
I could even look underwater with it if I liked.
The boys just got back from trying out
another experiment in the bath tub. They made sailboats out of flat
pieces of paper, straws,
and plastic sandwich bags for sails. They looked pretty good but both
of them knew that paper
would get wet in water so they chose to wrap the paper with aluminum foil.
You may have guessed the result. Flat foil doesn't
float any better than paper, so the paper still got wet. Maybe now
they're ready for some
lessons in boat building from Mom and Dad.
Covering paper up with aluminum foil
doesn't make it waterproof (at least not without some pretty fancy designing).
Neither does
bypassing God's rules of order while making the replacement standards look
pretty or politically correct.
In 1 Timothy 2, Paul covers some touchy
subjects. Whether it is the place of women in the church, proper dress,
praying for those in authority
over us, or His way of salvation, when we disagree with the Bible we disagree
with God. We
are on a paper raft and no amount of shiny fixing up will change the resulting
spiritual
chaos. Our way will sink. God's way works for everyone's good. You
can try to get by with
your own way or you can live life God's way. Have you talked to Him
about your plans today?
All Scripture references are from the New American Standard
Version unless otherwise noted.
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Paper Boat 
