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The little boy had worked so hard building the boat and now he held it in his hands ready for its first voyage.
Afraid, however, that it might go beyond his reach he attatched a string so he could control it…and then placed it gently in rushing waters…for it had just rained and rather hard.
The current was strong, too strong as it first pulled and then broke the string and the little boy watched his little boat carried away.
He raced downstream but soon the little boat was out of sight.
He returned home…saddened at his loss.
A few days later, on the way home from school, the little boy spotted a boat just like his in a store window. When he got closer, he could see -- sure enough -- it was his!The lad hurried to the store manager: "Sir, that's my boat in your window! I made it!"
"Sorry, son, but someone else brought it in this morning. If you want it, you'll have to buy it for one dollar."
He ran home and counted out all his money.
Exactly one dollar!
When he reached the store, he rushed to the counter. "Here's the money for my boat."
As he left the store, Tom hugged his boat and said, "Now you're twice mine. First, I made you and now I bought you."
In the book of Jeremiah you can find the following, “I went down one day to the potter’s house and watched the potter mold a piece of clay.
Something in the clay resisted the potter’s will and spoiled his dream for it. I saw the clay crumble in his hands and fall in broken pieces on the floor. But the potter did not throw it away as I supposed he would. Instead, he stooped down, picked up the broken pieces and made it over. The vessel was marred in the hands of the potter, and he made it again.”
This is Christ and man. We are broken. We do the breaking. He sets out to mould man but then something in man resists and a man crumbles before temptation and he picks up the pieces and picks up the pieces and picks up the pieces and loves us and forgives us.
He makes us and then he redeems us.
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To mention Christianity today is to create a firestorm of complaint. “We must assure separation of church and state” is the politically correct outcry. Unfortunately, most who are straining their vocal chords, have not strained any intellectual efforts to research how the original quote actually reads.
When Thomas Jefferson dipped his pen and began to put down his thoughts, he wrote, “a wall of separation between Church and State.” Even more interesting is the reason why it was written. A group of less than joyous Baptists in Connecticut Virginia
Separation of church and state? But should that mean separation of God and man?
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