Something To Think About Alignment, 6/9

Having the wheels properly aligned on anything that rolls--from cars that tend to dive for the ditch, to trailers (like the picture) that wear our tires on one side, to grocery carts that go "whappity, whappity, whappity"-- is incredibly important.   A friend of mine just invested a pretty good chunk of money in getting the front end of his car lined up.  It's money well-spent.  The wheel needs to be going the same direction as the rest of the vehicle.  Any deviation will produce excessive wear, or worse, disaster. Doing wheel alignment on an automobile is a specialty thing.  It takes the right equipment, and the right technician to use it. Yesterday we honored a batch of graduates at CBC.  It's one thing to get graduates to line up.  It's a far more difficult task to get a graduate in line.  Unlike servicing an automobile, there are no computer assisted people-alignment units, and the task is not done by a specialist.  While there are counselors, coaches, and people like me, who seek to give guidance, in the human realm it is an amateur who is wielding the wrench.  Each of us has to make the adjustment on himself.  And especially for people like graduates, who are going on to something new (and isn't really true about all of us?), that means we are getting oriented to something we've never seen before. Sounds impossible!? It would be, except. God in his word has given us the default settings.  "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind." "Love your neighbor as yourself." Seek opportunity to do good, and do those good deeds in such a way that God will be honored, rather than self puffed up. Etc.. When you buy a new car, the manufacturer doesn't know whether you will drive it on the long straight roads of Kansas, the pot-hole labyrinth that makes up many cities, or the curvy mountain roads that abound in my region.  The engineers that designed the car have concluded that this particular alignment is best for this particular vehicle.  Our God,who made us, knows far more about what makes us run straight than the best heads in Detroit do about Fords, Chevies, or Chryslers.  When God recalls one of His products, it is not because of any mistake on His part.  Follow His spec.s Run straight! It's STTA.   Find out more about CBC at our website, or in a recent newsletter. God's Story in His Own Words. our Easter message that presents the flow of Divine Revelation from "In the beginning," to the final "Amen." You can find out the extent of God's investment in us here.