I have a hidden and weird desire.
It’s to wash my car.
For the life of me I can’t figure out why I love to get my
car washed.
If I could, I would get it washed every week.
It’s really too bad I can’t.
We usually get our vehicles washed about twice a year.
There is just something about having a clean car that looks
nice to me.
It’s great to get all the dirt away and look nice and shiny.
Even when it’s a town and country minivan with 210,000 miles
on it.
It’s nice when it’s a vehicle but it’s even nicer when we
get clean.
I am talking about more than a shower or cleaning dirt off.
There are sins and mistakes that we are bathed in.
We are people that struggle, continue to make the same
mistakes over and over again and move forward.
Peter told this to the people that doubted in the man that
was healed in the first section of Acts 3 and how they were full of mistakes.
Just like us today, they were people that were stuck making
mistakes.
This is what Peter said to the people in Acts 3:19…
“Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be
wiped out, that ties of refreshing may come from the Lord.”
Sins being wiped out.
It makes me think about a windshield wiper cleaning off a
ton of bugs on the windshield.
Sometimes it takes three or four times of spraying and
wiping before that bug is not there.
Imagine if it just took one cleaning in order to be clean.
This is what Jesus offers us.
Repent is turning away from sin and those previous mistakes.
Turn to God, focus on him instead of the problem.
Sins are then wiped away.
Now you are free.
Faith can be so complex sometimes but this is pretty clear.
Turn away from your problem, turn towards God, problems in
the past are gone and live a new live.
There isn’t that many people that have a standing offer to
change you for the better if you just accept them.
Jesus offers that opportunity.
I would like to get my car wash.
More importantly, I would like to clean up my life to make
it better.
What about you?
Could you
use a second chance?
A
chance to make things right?
To
improve and not hold guilt in?
Today
is a beautiful day.
Carpe
diem.
