What a testing time this is for most people. How are we doing with the test? We might be finding it the undoing of us. We need to be fixed. But if we are to be fixed then the fix needs to be permanent, otherwise a future testing time might undo us again. Permanent fixes aren’t like glue, where you glue the pieces then hope they never come undone again. The only permanent fix we can have needs it permanence to be managed and guaranteed by someone always available to manage it. That means permanent management. Who can fix us but also guarantee such permanent management of the fixes? God raised the Son of Man from the dead for that very purpose. Trusting in Him is the first step to a permanent fixing of what is undone about us. Next step He said (John’s Gospel chapter 8 ) is to follow Him by holding to His teachings. Since He said that He has been crucified to pay for the fixes and been raised from the dead forever by God to guarantee and manage them.
