TRUE Help Desk

Ever since Friday of last week, I’ve spent a lot of time on ‘help desk’ phone calls with various manufacturers of products, and even had a “expert” tech visit my home office to attempt to fix an audio problem with my computer.

My problem is unresolved. I still have no sound on my computer. (It happened when I installed USB 2.0 drivers, corrupting existing audio drivers – or at least confusing them.)

It struck me how much of the world’s ‘solutions’ are exactly like this. You install one thing in your life and you wind up with something else broken, and so on and so forth. You wind up chasing various solutions to various problems all your life, and remain unsatisfied and broken to whatever extent your existence has brought you.

In spiritual terms, we call this “brokenness.” None of us like to be broken, but life experience tends to do that anyway. The question is: How can whatever state of brokenness we are in be fixed?

Some might say the answer is “religion.” For centuries this has been the answer many have sought. The problem is religion cannot heal the spirit of man – but can only massage the soul of man. This is why it takes so much religion. The soul enjoys being massaged. (BTW – one of the foremost ‘religions’ in the world today is the religion of science.)

Luke 6:6 Now it happened on another Sabbath, also, that He entered the synagogue and taught. And a man was there whose right hand was withered. 7 So the scribes and Pharisees watched Him closely, whether He would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against Him.

The scribes and pharisees were practitioners - and recipients of - soul massage, in the form of religious zealotry. They were so comfortable in a fleshy system they were venomous toward anything or anyone who might attempt to change the ‘system.’

Luke 6:10 And when He had looked around at them all, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he did so, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.

We are left to imagine the expression on the face of Christ as He looked around at those who had come to berate the ONLY ONE who has a solution to the problems of life’s brokenness – no matter what or how great the extent. This is yet another example of Christ’s ability to restore our original operating system – no matter how badly it has been corrupted – and no matter what the ‘experts’ may say. Only Jesus saves.

- Pastor Bill