How Can You Forgive That

What do you do when the drudge and muck of the past splatters onto your present, muddying your future.

So many times I will be going through the normalcy of life when suddenly the memory of a well hidden sin will assault my thoughts. My head jerks back as if I’ve been physically slapped and I cringe to clear my mind.

My God, how can you forgive that?

My 5 year old, Evynn, came to me one morning, head down, crying. She took me to her room where she showed me her clean white sheets, stained where a marker had bled dry. The rules were clear – no markers in the bed. She sobbed harder as her head bowed lower and she cried, “I’m sorry!” I held her, so grateful for the remorse in her heart. When I cleaned the sheets, no trace of the stain remained. I put the sheets back on her bed, and covered them with her comforter. When I put her to bed that night, Evynn was quick to notice, “The stain’s gone!!”

Evynn messed up. She had a consequence to her sin, she repented and she knows to never let that happen again. As for me, I never peel back her comforter and think of where the stain had been. All I see is clean white sheets.

We all mess up. We all have consequences to our sin. And if we repent, we will all be forgiven. The stains are gone, covered over by our Comforter.

My God, how can you forgive that?

And He whispers to my heart…
My Child. Forgive what?




"Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,"
Acts 3:19

"As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us."
Psalm 103:12