We spent yesterday evening visiting Alex at his place. Our grandson had gotten a hold of a ball of his mother’s yarn just before we got there and rearranged it for her. It is amazing what a mess a 6-month old can make out of a ball of yarn. It was knotted and twisted and all tangled up. We spent most of our visit slowly working the knots out and rolling it back into a neat ball, while we chatted with Alex. What took our grandson about 10 minutes to mess up took 3 adults about 1-½ hours to untangle.
Our lives are a lot like that ball of yarn. We’ve done an amazing job of messing our lives up, getting ourselves hopelessly entangled by our sins and mistakes, till we can’t tell one end from the other. We struggle to free ourselves from the cords that entangle us, but we end up just making things worse.
There really is only one solution to this problem. We need someone wiser than us to free us from “the sin that so easily entangles.” (Hebrews 12:1 NIV). There is only one who can do this for us, Jesus Christ, the “one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.” (Heb 4:15). He alone can set us free from the jumbled mess we’ve made and “if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” (John 8:36).
Come to Jesus today and hand him the knotted and twisted threads of your life. “In all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3:6). Let Him have control and he will take those tangled threads and make something beautiful of your life.