Just when you think you have problems you meet someone who really has a problem. This has happened to me so often, I no longer am surprised. People from Haiti are a world away until suddenly a person from Topeka is caught in the middle of the national drama.
The whole story isn’t yet known, but it reminds me a great deal of the complication in helping others with their problems. Their problems can become your problems. Nearly everyone would say, “I have enough problems I don’t need to go looking for more.”
The great temptation is to hole up in your own little world and let everyone else deal with their own “stuff.” Just a quick thought for your consideration: How big of a challenge do you have? How would you like to be running the entire world, and then on top of that have to step up to help the one guy you had planned on helping you. It is not quite that simple, but that is nearly what God did. He made man to tend a garden, but man utterly failed and fell into rebellion and sin.
So instead of washing His hands of man God did the unthinkable He took on human form in the person of Christ and identified with man’s problem. It all led to a cross. He became “our problem” who knew no “problems” so that we might have the perfections of Him revealed in us (2 Cor. 5:21). Many have never understood what Jesus did. They see him as a weak figure, certainly not the maker of the worlds. In this position He asks you to trust Him with all your problems. Will you?















I went for a ride in a combine once under different conditions. The ride reminded me of my wonderful childhood on the farm, but that was not what was different. What was especially interesting about this particular time was that the corn being picked was part of a series of test plots. Six rows at a time were picked, measured, and then the cycle began over again. Each particular hybrid of corn had to stand up to the test so that the farmer could choose his best options for planting next year.