Perfect Aim

This week, we'll reach the halfway point in the 8 week series, "The Best News You'll Ever Hear".

This Sunday: Part 4, "Something Has Gone Wrong"

Text related to the sermon/discussion: Romans 3:23

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

God is an archer.

We are arrows in His quiver.

Satan is an airborne parasite.

God aims.

He shoots.

We are sent on a trajectory toward eternity... toward holiness.

But along the way... we are tempted...

(Don't go the way He wants you to... let me "help" you).

Stupidly, we agree.

Stupidly, we give in.

And one little addition of this or that changes everything.

Our flight pattern is changed by the weight of misplaced trust.

And we fall short of the target God intended.

Not just some of us.

ALL of us fall short... all of us are stupid.

Billions of arrows... none of them hitting the target.

Except one.

And here's the strange part.

That one arrow hits the bulls eye.

Dead on.

And it's enough.

Enough for everyone.

Everyone who recognizes the pain of the parasite.

And longs for the joy of hitting the target.

In Christ... God cheats.

He picks us up... out of the dirt.

And places us inside the arrow that hit the target.

It's not fair.

We don't deserve it.

We screwed up.

We fell short.

We gave in.

We didn't trust the Righteous One.

And we slammed into the ground.

But God doesn't care.

He knows His aim was true.

He knows we screwed up.

And He knows we long to hit the bulls eye.

So he brushes us off.

And He rids us of the parasite.

And He deems us reconciled to Him.

Something went wrong.

Terribly wrong.

But thanks to the trajectory of Jesus...

That wrong was made right again.

That is... if we tire of sitting in the dirt...

Scraped up by the rocks, dusty and grass stained.

If and when we ever get sick of falling short.

And when we cry out to Him.

He is there... waiting for us.

Wanting to welcome us home.

Desiring to throw a party.

And put us back on the course He intended for us in the first place.

Back in His house.

Back in His arms.

Back in the bliss of eternity with Him.

Aren't you glad He has such good aim?