Duct Tape
They say if you can’t fix it with duct tape, you need more duct tape. This roll of wonder should be in everyone’s toolbox. In fact, you can repair nearly anything with duct tape. Whether it is a book binding, hole in your boot, leaky hose, or a broken taillight, duct tape will do the trick. With a little ingenuity and a strong dose of determination, you will find hundreds of uses for this great innovation. Withstanding the test of time since WWII, this fabric backed tape with strong adhesive has a reputation of successfully binding things together.
Held Together With Christ
Of all the items I could possibly tape together, could I use duct tape to bind the things in my life that seem to be falling apart? Certainly, but this kind of duct tape is called JESUS. “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together” (Colossians 1:17). If I give to Jesus my marriage, my children, my finances, my health, my household, my relationships, and my career, He will hold all these things together. If I give Him my attitudes, thoughts, and emotions, He will bind these together as well. No matter how hard I try, I cannot hold these things intact on my own, (John 5:30). Nor should I expect to. Especially when I fail to place my trust in the Lord, (Proverbs 3:5).
Bond Of A Lifetime
Truth to be told, when there is something broken in your life, and you don’t think you can fix it with Jesus… you just might need more of Jesus. He is the adhesive that will hold our life together. However, it is important to keep in mind that we can only see this bond through our faith in Him, (2 Corinthians 5:7). To fear, love, and trust in Jesus who loves us despite all our brokenness.
That is why we must be intentional on keeping this bond with our Lord and Savior secure. Taking our roll of spiritual duct tape called faith and tearing off a strip to spend time in His Word. Tearing off a strip to pray. Yet another to serve the needs of others. We can use this tape when we worship, ask for forgiveness, or come to His table. There are so many ways to keep adding layers to strengthen the bond with our Lord and Savior. And the strongest bond of all? An eternal promise from God by sending His one and only Son to the cross, (John 3:16).
Spiritual Duct Tape
Yes, Jesus died on the cross for our sins, but duct tape or nails could not hold Him there as He broke the bonds of death (Acts 2:24), to a glorious resurrection. Now with this forgiveness and eternal promise of salvation through Him, that is the truth our faith adheres to. Now we have the guidance through Him to give thanks for that spiritual duct tape that binds our thoughts, words, and actions for a stronger Christian life, (Colossians 3:17). Stuck to Jesus for eternity, our heavenly duct tape.
Dear Lord, thank you for keeping me held together when so many things are trying to get me to fall apart. Amen.
Colossians 1:17
John 5:3
Proverbs 3:5
2 Corinthians 5:7
John 3:16
Acts 2:24
Colossians 3:17
— Phil
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Today’s Scripture
Colossians 1:17
The Preeminence of Christ
17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
John 5:30
Witnesses to Jesus
30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
2 Corinthians 5:7
Our Heavenly Dwelling
6 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
John 3:16
For God So Loved the World
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Acts 2:24
Peter’s Sermon at Pentecost
24 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
Colossians 3:17
Put On the New Self
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.