Things didn’t work out as I thought that weekend, but, my son-in-law and I got about this task, and a similar task in his garden, on the weekend. 

We packed the prunings in the back of a ute, and in a trailer, and made our way up to the tip.

We waited for the tip attendant to come over to us and we had the voucher, supplied by the council which let us take such a load up to the tip, FOR FREE! in our hand. 

When we handed over the voucher, I was intrigued to hear the attendant’s response.

“Hey, I really like to see these vouchers being used!”

 This caused me to think how God will respond when, at the end of our mortal lives, we come to the point of wanting to join him in enjoying the delights of heaven for the rest of eternity. 

God has given us a, ”voucher”, to enable us to be confident to join him.

This, “voucher”, comes at great expense to God because it is only through the price of the life of His Son, Jesus, we can be sure to enter the celebrations in Heaven. 

There’s no way we can be good enough, or do enough good, to be sure we can join God at this great celebration.

We were more than willing to use the voucher provided by Bega Valley Shire Council to leave our prunings at the tip, at no further expense to us.

Let’s be ready to accept the way God has given us to join His celebration by accepting Jesus’ sacrifice. 

We don’t have anything else to do, just admit we can’t do anything more than God has provided.

Brian Dixon, Eden Church of Christ

Phone 6496 3367