"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more." Hebrews 8:12
I have been blessed to help with VBS for a good number of
years, I've determined teaching first and second graders is good medicine for
my faith. This year was like previous years, the week went by very fast, I got
very tired, and as usual it seemed I learned more from the children, than they
learned from me.
One of the evenings during the Bible study time, Pastor John
was sharing the gospel with the children by using colored helium balloons. Each
colored balloon represented a part of the message, and one of the balloons, the
black one, not surprisingly stood for sin. As John held the black balloon and
explained how sin keeps us from heaven and blocks us from seeing God, a young
boy leaned over to his teacher and quietly said, I think he should just let
that black balloon go. I was so blessed that this little guy was in a simple
way grasping the heart of the gospel. This boy had a healthy dislike for the
darkness and ruin of sin and would have liked to see it just float away. Of
course it may not be easy to let go of sin, but by Jesus' blood (red balloon),
the curse of sin is done away with, and our sins are remembered no more.
What a sweet reminder for us all, there is no need to be
bound by sin any longer, as we let go of sin to cling to Christ, the crippling
affect of sin floats off like a helium balloon.
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