Rubik's Cube

…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
- Romans 3:23-24 NIV

My experience with a Rubik’s Cube goes something like this: Took it out of the wrapper, made one twist, started a journey towards total and utter confusion and mess from which there was no turning back. Try as I might, I could never solve the puzzle on my own, but rather continually dug a deeper and deeper pit.
My experience reminds me of the Gospel, the good news that we have in Jesus. It first starts with the bad news, the problem…the mess. The first few chapters in Genesis go something like this; God makes the world, God makes people, they mess it up badly. They disobey God thus allowing sin into the world, affecting all of humanity and, in fact, all of creation. Sin created a gulf between God and human kind, brought about death, and allowed for the mess in this world. The rest of the bible, however, tells the story of the mission that God began to provide a way out for the people that he loved, culminating in the cross and resurrection of Jesus. Through Jesus’ death on our behalf there is hope that our right relationship with God can be re-established lasting unto eternity and that eventually when He returns all things will be made right.