Years ago someone came up with a question that does not have an answer: "If God can do anything, can He create a rock that is too big for Him to pick up?" Whoever thought up this questions has way too much time on his hands.
Sandbox Theology:
A little boy was spending his Saturday morning playing in his sandbox. He had with him his box of cars and trucks, his plastic pail and a shiny red plastic shovel. In the process of creating roads and tunnels in the soft sand, he discovered a large rock in the middle of the sandbox. The boy dug around the rock, managing to dislodge it from the dirt. He struggled and pushed and nudged the rock across the sandbox by using his feet. (Small boy - large rock). When the boy got the rock to the edge of the sandbox, however, he found that he could not roll it up and over the little wall.
He kept trying, He pushed, shoved, pried but every time he made any progress the rock fell back into the sandbox. The rock fell on his small hand and hurt his chubby fingers. He burst into tears of frustration.
All this time the boy's father watched from the living room window. Just the moment when the boy burst into tears, a large shadow fell across the boy and the sandbox. It was the boy's father. Gently but firmly he said, "Son, why didn't you use all thew strength that you had available?"
Defeated, the boy sobbed, "But I did, daddy, I did! I used all the strength that I had!"
"No, son," said the father. "You didn't use all the strength you had. You didn't ask me."
With that the father reached down, picked up the rock and removed it from the sandbox.
This Sandbox Theology does not need a lot of explaining. We have all done it. Try, try, try in our own strength, just to find out that it is impossible in our own strength. We sometimes forget that God is watching us with loving, caring eyes and His strength is much greater that our own, so why not ask for His help. Don't wait until you burst into tears to cry out for help.
DO IT NOW!!!
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