The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread

Every so often I discover some great invention that I can’t believe I never knew about. Some item that may have been around a while, but I never gave it try. Something that makes me think of the phrase “this is the best thing since sliced bread!” That happened to me last week in Lowes.

First I have to come clean…I am a serial painter. I paint rooms. In our old house I painted every room of the house, at least once. I’m working my way through the rooms of our current house, only have a few to go…then we will have to move I suppose.

Anyway, I was buying a gallon of Pink Whisper paint at the Lowes’s paint counter (I love Valspar signature paint!) and there next to the all the stirring sticks and rollers was a bucket of little plastic thingies that snap onto the paint can top and allow you to pour paint without trashing the top of the paint can! EUREKA! I can’t stand all that paint down in the lip of the paint can. I bought one! I picked white, although it came in a dozen great colors…but the white would go with all my future paint colors. (I realize it’s sad that I think about stuff like this.) I have used that little plastic spout now twice, once to paint the Pink Whisper in my daughter’s room and today to paint a wall in the basement (the color was called Bear Claw…who names these paints?) I LOVE this little plastic thingy! I’ve made a million messes cleaning up the top of my paint cans, why oh why didn’t I discover this thing sooner? I could have avoided all those messes.

When I think about my life, I think that same thing about getting to know Jesus. I think, if only I’d given my life to Him sooner, I wouldn’t have made all those mistakes. I would have treated people better, worried my mom less. And if only I could speed up my sanctification I could avoid more messes. But honestly, I can’t speed up the process. I just keep at it. Sort of like the painting, I won’t ever be done.