Carports and Garages

(some things are good... but Jesus is better)

Carports and Garages

A drive around any of the older neighborhoods in Wake County, North Carolina will eventually lead you to a quintessential American architectural icon… the carport.  Not the prefab metal contraptions you might purchase at Tractor Supply, but the real  “attached to the house Frank Lloyd Wright named” carport.  Open on two or three sides, they protect the vehicle from the sun and the rain yet allow for plenty of ventilation.

But when snow, ice, hurricanes or thieves happen by, the car port is woefully inadequate to give our vehicles the protection and safety they truly need.  That’s when having a locked garage is a blessing.

 “The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.” Hebrews 7:18

The law the writer of Hebrews cited had a similar effect.  Even today it can make you a good person…a better person than you would be otherwise.  It can create a caring and well-ordered society where the basic tenents of interpersonal rights and responsibilities are respected.  But the law could never make anything perfect…it was woefully inadequate to protect us.

So Christ came…to be the perfect sacrifice…to stand in our place before a perfect and holy God.  To be our “better hope” and allow us to draw near to God in spite of our imperfection.

What a blessing that is…

Thanks for all you do.

Brian

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Volume 6, Number 44