It is apple picking time. Bags of Cortland, Macintosh and Golden Delicious apples sit in unmanned roadside stands. There are pails for your money. Someone will come along in late afternoon to collect the cash that has accumulated during the day. Hundreds of cars will drive by with everyone knowing there is money in those pails. Perhaps the world is not as bad a place as we sometimes think. We watch the evening news and read the front page of the local paper and get the impression the world is just one giant cesspool filled with dishonest creeps. I like the message of unmanned roadside apple stands. It tells us the world is still filled with good people.
Unfortunately, it would take just one rotten person to spoil it. It is so often that way. One drunk driver kills a carload of innocent people. One terrorist destroys a hundred lives. Adam and Eve ruined a perfect creation.
Isn’t it grand that it can also work the other way? One man’s righteousness can make up for all our sins. Paul wrote the following to the Romans, “For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.” 5:15
Written by Roger Bothwell on October 7, 2009
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