I recently saw a lady with brilliant white trainers on, while I was walking the dog.
I wondered how on earth she was going to keep them so white.
It took me back to when I was a teenager, you could buy a product
for whitening your tennis shoes.
You’d press the sponge on your shoe and it would cover all the marks, etc.
It didn’t actually clean them,
it just covered everything up, and made them look clean.
It made me think about man’s attitude to the faults and sins, we deceive ourselves if we think that by all these modern methods such as:
Mindfulness
Positive thinking
Self improvement
Conscience awareness
Counselling, etc. etc. we can ever cover up our secret faults and sins.
You can deceive others, you can deceive yourself but you can never deceive God. You may say “I don’t believe in God” but just because you don’t believe doesn’t mean He doesn’t exist. God’s existence doesn’t depend on man’s belief. I was recently in a conversation with a gentleman on Twitter, who said he had put his Bible down and accepted there was no God. How foolish would we consider the man who turned off the mains power to his electricity and said “electricity doesn’t exist.”
God exists, and He created everything, including man, who disobeyed Him and so sin entered into the heart of man, and men have been born sinners since. We all have moral standards, some are higher than others, but all men are answerable to God’s standards. If someone breaks man’s laws they are punished, and whoever breaks God’s laws will be punished. So if all men and women are sinners, and are destined to judgment, condemnation, and eternal punishment by God, what can we do to put it right? Nothing.
God sent His Son into our world, He was a human being as we are, but still God and so He was sinless. He took our place. Jesus, was punished for my sins and for your sins. This is God’s love toward man, as He doesn’t want anyone to perish, but to have everlasting life. Can we earn this? No, do we deserve this? No. It is all a free gift of God’s grace. We must come to God with a repentant heart, we must ask for His forgiveness through His Son, and we must believe in Jesus and turn away from our old life and God will give us a new heart. There’s no cover up, God doesn’t try and whiten up the old wicked heart, the Bible tells us that God gives us a new heart and that we are then new creatures in Christ Jesus.
