No More Scars

Years ago I was at my parent's home and decided that I wanted to wash my car, a bright red, 300ZX. These were the days before Bubbles and there was a car wash down the street from my parent's house.  I drove there and parked my car in one of the stalls.

I had my quarters ready and plenty of them.  You don't want to run out of quarters in the middle of a wash.  Having washed the car, I moved on to the rinse.  In the process, I held the wand and put my quarters in the machine.  In those days they did not have wands with safety activation triggers either.  Once you put your money in, the water burst forth from the wand.

I was not prepared for the intense water pressure or the temperature.  The wand slipped from my hand and was waving uncontrollably through the air.  The water pressure was strong and it got to my face before I could protect it. 

I immediately drove to my parent's home where mom tried to pamper me and urged me to go to the emergency room.  I took one look in the mirror and was devasted.  I had two cuts from my forehead, across my nose and to past my cheek.  I just knew that my face would never be the same.

Twenty five years later there are no signs of those scars.  Unfortunately because of my recent fall, there are new ones.    As I look in the mirror at the cuts and bruises on my face I have hope.  I have hope that it will not scar me for life.  I have hope because of past experiences.

I can not remember the scars of the car wash, I can not even picture them in my mind....they are gone, kaput...a distant memory.

So it is when Christ forgives us of our sins.  We often want to hold on...to remember the sin even when God has said "If it's forgiven, I remember it no more." 

I will never live sin free-but I have the hope of forgiveness!  With forgiveness, the scars of sin will vanish.  While I may fall to sin daily, it can not hold me captive or scar me because Christ offers that forgiveness.

Although right now I look in the mirror and see cuts and bruising, I know one day they will be gone and I my face will be restored to freshness as my life in Christ is restored through forgiveness.

Let go of your sin, put your hope in Jesus Christ and let him remove all scars of sin!

For as high as the heavens are above the the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. Psalms 103: 11-12