Sermon Illustrations
Only Jesus Can Fix the World
One Sunday morning, a man woke up around 5 a.m., his wife and children still asleep. Glad to have time to himself, he went downstairs, brewed some coffee, and began to read the morning paper. Three sentences into an article, he saw his five-year-old daughter descending the stairs.
He said, "Honey, go back to bed."
"But I'm not sleepy," she insisted.
Determined to read his paper, he again urged her to go back to bed. Again, she told him she was not tired.
Looking down at the newspaper, he conceived a plan. In the paper was a picture of the world, which he cut into several pieces. Handing his daughter some Scotch tape, he instructed her, "Go sit in the dining room, and see if you can put the world back together."
His daughter accepted the challenge, and he went back to the kitchen to finish his coffee and read the paper. After only a few sips of his coffee, though, his daughter came bounding into the kitchen. "Here, Daddy, I'm finished!" she said, showing him the picture of the world put back together.
Amazed, he asked, "Sweetie, how did you do that so fast?"
She replied, "It was easy, Daddy. On the back side of the page was a picture of a man. When you make the man right, you make the world right."
In a similar way, only Jesus can bring order to this world.