Good Morning Friends! Mighty and Marvelous is our God, Monday!!! Each Sunday during Lent in Sunday school, we all (kids and teachers) took a big nail, held it in our hands and in silence thought about our sins, maybe a particular sin that needed forgiving, asked for forgiveness and then we each, still in silence stuck our nails into a brown Styrofoam cross. We then prayed together for God to help us do the best we can and thanked Him for sending His Son to die for us, forgiving our sins. Like I said we did this each week so the cross was quite full of nails. After church on Good Friday, I took all the nails out of the cross, took it home and painted the other side white; my plan was to have a lesson based on because of Easter, our sins are forgiven and we are washed clean…white. Easter Sunday was very busy at Sunday school, so we didn’t have a chance to talk about the changes in our cross, but yesterday I was excited for the kids to see the white, nail-less cross. I gathered them all around our table and before I could even get started one young boy, 11, said, “ hey the nails are all gone and our cross is white.” Ah, I thought, this is going to be great, but then he went on to say, “hey the other side is still brown.” I tried to skip over that fact and get on with the Easter message with the white side of our cross, but he would have no part of it. He was determined to keep on about the brown side of the cross and get to the bottom of the whole deal! Well, I was actually getting a little perturbed at him (oh yes it’s true, I had to ask for forgiveness) as he had really taken the wind out of what I thought was a great lesson. Well, I finally got him to give it up and went on with class, but I just couldn’t get it off my mind……kids! As I was sitting in church listening to Pastor….I finally got it……with the help of this young man, I figured it out…..Jesus didn’t die for just some of our sins, HE didn’t wash just half of them away…..HIS death and resurrection gives us a clean slate, wipes all our sins away….front and back…..inside and out….HIS blood makes us clean….Father, bring us to You in true repentance to confess and seek Your forgiveness. Give us hearts that forgive others as You forgive us. And Father thank you for the pure wisdom of children and the lessons we can learn from them.
“Come now, let us reason together,” say the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” Isaiah 1:18. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgression from us. Psalm 103:12. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. Ephesians 1:7-8. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Ephesians 4:32.
Love you all!
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