This post is from an experience that I had about two weeks ago. There is a community outreach center in our town that is a fairly new organization. They serve the people of the community with a food distribution center and a clothing shop, among other things. They moved into a large building in our town, and fixed up much of it. But the upstairs is still being worked on. The large room of the upstairs part has a floating floor, made of all of these 2 foot by 2 foot metal tiles, pieced into a floor. Each square has a carpet square glued on top. In the course of my volunteer work there, I was asked to assist in the removal of these carpet squares, they kinda looked like this.
This turned out to be a real chore. Myself and a few other people pried at the carpet squares with screwdrivers, prybars, crowbars, and pulled on them as hard as we could. Each square took about 5-10 minutes to remove. And after some time this resulted in pain in our hands from prying on these squares. We all thought that there had to be an easier way to remove them all. Please understand the room is quite large, and I estimated that there were about 300+ of these squares in all. We suggested that we might try to apply heat to the carpets and then remove them. But we struggled on for the remaining time that day.
The next time I came back, I discovered that some of the other workers had brought a heat gun (Like a superhot hair dryer) with them and were heating the square as it was being peeled off the floor tile. If this was done, each square came off in about a minute instead of the previous 5-10 per tile. It was by no means easy, as we still had to peel them off with much difficulty. But what we thought would help us actually made it much easier to remove them.
This very long story has a point in that it is a parallel to our lives. Many of us know that if we accepted Christ into our life it would make it much easier to live it. I don’t mean that it makes life completely easy after you do, as life is never completely easy. But this choice can be. Without Christ, we struggle on through our problems alone, not making much progress and often getting hurt. (Just like us prying off the carpets the first day!) But if we accept His help in our life, we can do all things, like the heat gun saving us a lot of struggling in our job. So, if you are in this situation, I hope that you will stop hesitating and ask Him into your life. It will change everything if you get to know him.
