The standard Texas phrase for applying a solution is to “fix it.”
If we’re hungry, we fix lunch. Broken kite? Fix it. Damaged relationships, yeah, we can fix those, too.
“Fix it” applies in other ways, also. Trash not out? We say we’re fixing to do it, meaning it’s the next thing on our to-do list.
Are we fixing to fix our relationship with Christ? Are we about to give him lordship over who we are? Is it the next thing on our list? We need to make it happen now. He’s already started the process.
John 3:16 reveals that God took the biggest “fix it” step first:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Luke 7:27 backs up Christ’s authenticity with a verifiable provenance:
“This is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.”
Jeremiah 29:11 says our “fix it” cure is more than wishing on a prayer, for God has ordered our lives to be successful for him:
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
Our Father in heaven is a fix it sort of guy. He’s in there curing what’s wrong with our lives. He’s applying emotional bandages so our relationships can heal, tossing out the trash so we don’t have to smell it, and putting us in a right relationship with him. How? Through Christ, who is our ultimate cure for the problems we deal with every day.
Texans brag about how the Lone Star State is bigger and badder than any other. We’re ready to fix what needs fixed, and we don’t take no for an answer. Maybe God is a bit of a Texan at heart, always involved, ready to fix our problems when we need him most.
When we offer God our lives, no matter how broken, he’s ready to apply the ultimate cure, his Son, Christ our Lord.
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