Brackets, couches and sledgehammers

How bad do you want to watch March Madness?

Can you top this?

So I invited my buddy over to watch some of the early games on Thursday.  I was super-excited, not only because we could enjoy some games together, but also because after about 3 years of planning, researching and saving, we finally had a new couch delivered Thursday morning.  Perfect!  Good friend, great basketball, new couch, kick-back and enjoy!

Right?

Wrong.

The delivery guys arrive with the couch.  They take one look at the basement steps (our family room is in the basement) and they say, "Is this the only way down there?"  Bad news.  The couch won't fit down the steps!!!

Are you kidding me?

So they leave the couch in the middle of the living room.  Long story short...when I got home with my buddy and another friend, we pushed, pulled, tugged, and lugged that couch in every way possible and still that thing wouldn't go.  Finally, one of the guys asked..."How bad do you want this couch downstairs?"  (Understand that by this point we have turned on the Tournament and can hear the play by play from the family room!)

This is what we have hoped for.  We bought this couch for the family room.  It has no other place in the house.  It was made for TV (Tournament) watching!  It must get down the stairs.

So you know what we did?

We took a sledgehammer to the basement steps.  That's right!  Demolition, baby.  We busted out the step next to the landing. We brought in the couch again.  We set the couch on the landing.  We pivoted that couch and-- joy of joys-- we got that sucker down the steps!!!

Red couch in front of flat screen watching the brackets fill in...priceless.

But here's the thing.  That couch was made for that room, but in order to get it there, we had to literally cut out a step.

You were made for--crafted intricately for-- relationship with Jesus.  What do you need to cut out in order to bring you closer to Him?  Is there something in your way?

Don't let anything stand between you and Jesus!