First and Foremost

   I'm sure most of you have at least rode in a new car once in your lifetime. Maybe you even own one. So tell me, if you know anything about cars, what happens when your axle begins to become off centered?
Well your car spaces out. It starts to drift slowly off of the road and over time it takes more and more to be able to control it. This progresses until the car is either eventually uncontrollable or you get it centered correctly again.
   If you leave your car the same way, and you have to drive through tough conditions for example, say a snow storm, and you must stay straight on the road, guess what, you may be in trouble. Now you are going through a test when you need all of your parts to work but they do not, because they were never fixed. Now you are going from side to side on the road, hoping to reach your destination safely.
   But say when you realized that your axle was starting to become slightly off centered, you immediately got it fixed or "refocused" if you will. When the snow is on the ground (or the storm in life approaches), you will have confidence that your car will last.
   That is the seasoned Christian. It seems as some graduate if you will from the Cross and the Gospel. But this is our Salvation. And it does not matter how much scholarly information you can swallow about Religion, if you dont have the relationship from the Cross of Calvary, you really dont have what is first and foremost, and that is Christ dying for our sins.