The Conductor

Back in the day, a man went down to the recruiter's office and joined the train corps. More than anything the man wanted to be an engineer and guide trains down the track safely and efficiently. The recruiter was a sly one, as the breed tends to be, and told the man that all engineers begin as track repairmen first. By a stroke of fortune, however, the man had arrived at just the time the train corps was short of conductors. He could skip ahead of all those rail pounders, if he signed up that day. The man couldn't believe his luck and immediately signed the contract without really reading it.

A couple of weeks pass in conductor school, and the man graduates to actually riding on a real train. The engineer points to a steering wheel and tells the new conductor to keep the train on the tracks at all times. The engineer explains with a perfectly straight face, that he only controls the brakes and something oddly named the reverser. With careful attention to his duties the man steers the train up and down the tracks for 20 years. Proud of his safety record, the conductor takes his eyes off the tracks one day and looks around a bit. The train is crossing a field filled with wildflowers, it's beautiful. He sneezes. Suddenly, the conductor with the perfect safety record realizes that with a sneeze and a jerk of the wheel, he has ruined all. Looking up, the train runs down the track just as it always has. He jerks the wheel back the other way. Nothing. Wait a minute...

Without Jesus, that is what you and I accomplish. Without Jesus, our steering wheel ain't connected to anything!

Have a great day in Christ!
Bucky