Sin

I am fascinated by people they call hoarders.  They often have homes full of junk, paper, trash, and even rotting food and are unwilling to get rid of it.  It becomes especially perplexing when folks come into to help, point out the problem, give them some wise counseling, and even volunteer to clean up their home throwing away the often stinking refuse, and they still resist the help.  Jesus gave His life on the cross certainly to show us how much he loved us, but even more he did it to forgive us our sins, enter our world where we hoard sin and its guilt and its effects,we are way too often defined by these piles of what we have done to ourselves, to others, and what has been done to us.  The standard of the clean up, the forgiveness of sin, is the cross.  We can be set free for the asking.  “Grace greater than all our sin”, and the standard of God on a cross is sufficient to clean up the little messes our lives can easily become.  Matthew 26:28″ This is the blood of the covenant, which is to be shed on the behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins!”