Cup and straw...

Which would you use to put out a forest fire?

a)Cup and straw
b)Firetruck fully equipped

I learned at church today that the firetruck is the better choice. Leb painted this really odd picture of us choosing to use a cup and straw to put out the "fires" in our lives when we have God, (firetruck) to do the job for us.

What made me really laugh was when he said that we deal with the stuff in our lives like an overused, wired to death but operating weed-whacker...(every time the thing goes on the brink, you dont think about replacing it, you just go and grab some more wire to fix it, because that is the only thing that has held the piece of crap together thus far) when really God looks at us and goes, ya, it works, but wouldn't you rather a new one?

Why do i keep the old weed-whacker? Same reason I have all of my YFC files in the closet... Might need them or use them some day. (Not bloody likly, God gives new studies according to where we are at...kids follow.)

For real, I guess I keep the weed-whacker because I dont see a new one in sight. Trust of what is to come. I think I continually worrie about if I surrender or "get rid of" something, what God will put there to replace it... You Bible brainers say, himself... I say, and and what does that look like... I get told to trust again... Lovin' it!