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Friday, January 2, 2026
On a corner of the Renton housing development where Shelley and I live there’s a house whose owners go to a great deal of working putting up homemade Christmas décor. Shelley and I always consider the Christmas season officially kicked off when those decorations appear.
A few days back I was walking past this home, looking with benign pleasure on the decorations, I glanced down and spotted this zip tie on the sidewalk. Thinking I might be able to use it in one of these blogs, I snapped its picture, and you see it above.
The more I mulled over that zip tie, the more significant it became. A couple of days later I picked it up and took it home with me.
What’s so important about this zip tie? For one thing, zip ties are tough. They’re designed to keep things captive. (I have a couple of bigger zip ties holding part of my car fender so it doesn’t catch the wind!)
Also, zip ties can only tighten. They can’t loosen. You can’t make a zip tie go backwards, because of the one-way teeth along the strip that feeds through the square slot.
One more fact. There’s only one way you can release the “captive” from this tie – get a heavy-duty pair of scissors, or a sharp knife, and cut it loose. This is what happened here. I have no clue as to what was held captive, but a “higher power” had to intervene!
You know where I’m going with this, right? Sure you do. Those Christmas decorations, and many others through our neighborhood, glow encouragingly to remind us that Jesus was born into a sin-trapped world to cut us free with His death.
To review how this has happened, click the link just below:
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/salvation