Tangles

I’m sewing today. Do you want to come and join me? See these soft felt squares? You can sew them together to make a blanket. I will show you how. It isn’t hard.

First we must cut a long piece of thread—don’t you think this red is a pretty color? Snip it right here. Now you can thread it through the needle. Good! Next we need to make a knot at the end, like this. Do you have two blocks ready to sew? Match up the edges carefully and poke the needle through. Pull. Poke it in right here and make another stitch. See? You are sewing!

Is something wrong? Oh, you have a tangle in your thread. Hand it to me and I will fix it. You can’t sew with tangly thread, can you? Here, the tangle is out and you can sew again!

Sometimes our life all seems in tangles, doesn’t it? The devil wants to get us all knotted up so that our life is a mess. I can teach you a song about tangles. It goes like this:

“Tangles, tangles, tangles I was in;
I was born in Tangle Town because of Adam’s sin;
But Jesus came along the way and undid all the knots:
Now I’m so happy because I’m not in tangles!”*

“What is Adam’s sin?” you ask. Well, have you heard of Adam and Eve, the first people God made? When they sinned and disobeyed God, everyone else was born in ‘Tangle Town,’ which means that we all disobey and get tangled up inside, too.

“I see,” you say, “and my thread has got another tangle.”

Let’s sing the Tangle song while I fix it.

It is Jesus that came to take the knots of sin out of our hearts and make us good and happy inside. Isn’t He wonderful? Jesus can fix every problem if we give our hearts to Him, just like you gave the tangled thread to me. It isn’t fun to have bad tempers and selfishness and lies and fears tangles up in your heart. Don’t you want Jesus to undo all the knots inside of you?