Not Gooder. Better. - Ron

There's something strange about camp coffee. I don't know if it is a by product of the percolating process or not. What I do know, however, is that the coffee I make while out camping is not as good as the coffee at home, but it is better. 

I think it is mostly the environment. You see, I love camping. There is nothing about camping that I do not like. When I am camping, everything is better. Including the coffee.

Actually I am camping right now. I've been trying to camp since before Thanksgiving but it has never worked out. So I finally took one of my sons and two of his friends camping for just one night. I'm laying in a hammock in the sun. It is 47ﾟand I am writing this on a tablet. I'm listening to my son and his friends laugh while birds sing all around me. I am enjoying enjoying nature. I needed this spiritually, emotionally, and mentally, about as badly as I can describe it.

Anyway, the idea about the coffee being not as good but better got me thinking. It got me thinking about our relationship with Christ. Most every Christ-less religion teaches that you have to be good to get to heaven. There must be some merit of your own worth the entrance fee. 

But the reality is good was never possible for us in the 1st place. At least, not perfectly good. At least, not good enough to meet the requirement; which is perfection.

But Jesus changed all of that. No longer do we have to be good. We actually can be made better when we are in Christ. And so just like the coffee isn't gooder, but it is better, when I'm camping, so too is Ron Young not gooder, but he is better, when he is in Christ.

And you can be made better, too.