Deacon's Diary

Deacon's Diary for Sunday-September, 14th

deaconlwg | September 28, 2008 16:46

Deacon's Diary is a weekly feature that appears on the back side of the bulletin at the First Baptist Church of Avalon, Texas.

Ask yourself this question.

A couple of weeks ago  my wife Kay called me from a tire store near the house. She had just recently put four new tires on her car and one of them was already going flat, so she took the car there to make them make it right.


After being told about the problem of the brand new but leaky tire, the attendant asked her a very curious question. He asked, "Are you sure it was flat, or did it just look like it was flat?"  Like I said. Very curious.


Kay was more than just a little offended at the man's question. It was a little condescending. It was as if, just because she was a woman, that he thought that maybe she wasn't smart enough to know a flat tire when she saw one. Before it was over he probably wished he hadn't asked.


Now if that guy had asked me that same question I probably would have had a question for him. Something like, "Can you tell me what exactly is the difference between flat and just looking flat?"  I mean, when you really think about it, what kind of question was that? It would be just like taking your clothes to the cleaners and having the person that worked there asked you if your clothes were really dirty, or did they  just look dirty. Where's the difference? Just address the problem!


Kay and I got a few good laughs talking about all this afterwards. But later on it got me thinking about something else that is no laughing matter at all. The differences between flat and just looking flat, or dirty and just looking dirty are small if not nonexistent, but think about the huge difference between  saved and just looking saved. Now that makes  a world of difference. Enormous difference. An eternity of difference.


To avoid the kind of problems the guy at the tire shop stumbled into, we should probably refrain from asking this question of another person, but maybe we should ask it of ourselves. Do I know Jesus, or do I just think I know Jesus?

 

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