It has been said that religion is merely a crutch for the weak of intellect. The idea is that people turn to religion as the means of reassuring themselves that their difficult, poverty-stricken lives are worthwhile in view of the afterlife.

A crutch is a device for helping people who are wounded.

It helps them to function and to heal.  Once the person has healed, they no longer need the crutch.

When turning your life over to God becomes a long stick with a crosspiece at the top used as support under the armpit sometimes you can get an inaccurate picture of who God is.

A couple days ago one of my wife’s friends was driving with her husband, they have a little girl that was being watched by grandma.

One patch of ice, one tree, and her husband was killed.

In seconds from loving wife, to 25 year-old widow.

With a little girl who turned 3

today.

Today is also the wake for the deceased.

The raw widow confirms with another close friend using religion as a crutch.  They agree that God uses us for a mission and when we’re done wherever we are he takes us home.  Even if it means crashing into a tree leaving a little girl fatherless on her third birthday.

When turning our life over to God becomes a long stick with a crosspiece at the top used as support under the armpit we can get an inaccurate picture of who God is.

There is a whole world of fatherless children who will be dependant upon us to know and tell the difference between crutch and crux.

james 1.26-27