“I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands.” Psalm 119:176

After taking everything OUT of the room to install the flooring, it was time to put it all back IN. Having taken the bi-fold doors OFF, it was time to put them back ON their hinges. A seemingly simple task, since the hinges had never moved. Setting the pin and picking UP on the door, I set it DOWN into place on the lower hinge. SIMPLE! Until I tried closing them. I HATE bi-fold doors!

There are rules and methods to installing bi-fold doors. I used to know them because 40 years ago, as a carpenter, I did it for a living. But that was 40 years ago. But even then, there is just something mystical about this kind of door. It seems to have a mind of it’s own and refuses to obey any standard laws or rules. And I might as well say it… bi-fold doors are just like ME!

I got UP, went OUT to the garage, got tools and shims, went back IN the room and got DOWN on the floor to work on the hinges. UP, DOWN, IN, OUT, door ON… door OFF! After a while, it finally closed… KIND of! Turning to my wife I said… “GOOD ENOUGH!” But it wasn’t PERFECT! When she asked me why not… I hollered, “cuz I just don’t CARE!” And in this simile on life, I think you understand EXACTLY what I mean. Being built to obey, love and serve God… I sometimes come off my hinges, hang crooked and do not function perfectly. But THANK GOD… ‘HE’ is the carpenter of my life!

ALL believers in Christ, stray. I KNOW what is right and wrong. I TRY to perform perfectly. But the fact is, perfection is EXHAUSTING! Sometimes I get to the point where I JUST DON’T CARE! And then HE comes to me! He is IN me and I am IN Him. Because of that fact, we can never be separated (Romans 8:1). That means that we are inseparable from one another. So when I can’t… He can. And He does!

I live to serve Him and know His ways. And while NO sin or failure will be assigned to me in Heaven because of His sacrifice for me, I live in a fleshy body that often refuses to hang perfectly. Often, I have to remind myself that HE is the carpenter and HE knows what He is doing. It is enough to simply ‘hang’ with Him and let Him do the work of adjustment. It is a LOT easier if I simply cooperate!

I serve a seeking Savior… He knows EXACTLY where ‘I’ am AND what ‘He’ is doing! HE CARES! And THAT, my friends, is ‘Good Enough!’