Well it has happened again! Another kicker has missed again. Two years ago, New York Giant football punter Matt Dodge flubbed a kick costing the Giants a pivotal game. The media was relentless in replaying the kick over and over again. Dodge was told to kick the football out of bounds to force the game into overtime. Instead, he punted the ball to a Philadelphia Eagle who returned it for a winning touchdown with only seconds left in the game. Over and over again, on every channel, you could see his mistake being replayed.
This weekend at the New England/Baltimore game, the Baltimore Ravens had an opportunity to tie the game and send it into overtime. Instead, the Ravens kicker, Billy Cundiff missed the field goal ending the season for the Ravens. Again, over and over you saw the mistake. At one point, Cundiff even placed his hand over the photographer's camera to avoid being recorded. Into the morning, the media played the fateful mistake. I could not have told you the Raven's kicker's name prior to this and now it is known by many.
This weekend my husband and I travelled to Fredericksburg Texas. Being his birthday, we went with one purpose, to go to the foot of the cross. The foot of the cross where all our faults and errors are forgiven by a merciful God. A God that does not remember or constantly replay our mistakes. A God who heals hearts and restores.
While Matt Dodge and Bill Cundiff's misses ruined their team's chances for a Super Bowl and man will not soon forget, God has erased our sin to remember it no more.
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Psalm 103:12
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