Don't hold on

The other day, I found some "chocolate coated candy."  You know the kind.  It is the one that uses only one letter but uses it twice. 

So I picked up a couple of these candies and I was going to save them for later.  Their slogan has always been ".....melts in your mouth, not in your hand."  My mouth was watering waiting to pop them in my mouth.  I only had three so I wanted to hold on to them and savor the moment. 

Unfortunately, I waited too long.  I got caught up talking to a neighbor in the yard.  When I came back in, I opened my hand to discover that the candy that "melts in your mouth not in your hand" had melted all over.  It was covering my entire hand and was now seeping through my fingers.

I went to the sink to wash the sweet stuff off my hand and realized that sin works in much the same way.  Instead of coming to Christ for immediate confession and repentance, we hold on.

We hold on to sin so long that it can stain us.  Like the candy, we are fully aware of the consequences for holding on too long.  We know that it can stain us, we know that heat can intensify the sin and cause a stain and yet we continue to hold on.     

The good news is that just like I washed the melted chocolate off my hand, God can wash sin out of our lives.   Regardless of what the sin it, how long it has been in your life, or what anyone has told you, God can and will forgive!!

So let go of that sin and remember, the one that holds on to you, can help you let go!

Come let us reason together says the Lord.  "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be as red as crimson, they shall be like wool." Isaiah 1:18