Monday, March 27, 2006

Analogy of men and sin: men without sin is like a cup of water. transparent, pure and clean.sin is like that drop of ink u drop into that cup of water. even if it was but on drop, that drop will forever marr the perfect cup of water; it can no longer be clean and pure enough for us to drink. and sin will not lessen; it can only get more and more.

This analogy was a good one because it is true.what we have done can never be erased,no matter what you do.Yesterday the end of the story came to me.there are but 2 ways to try and deal with it.one, we can try to add more and more water, hoping to counter that drop of ink. the more water we add in, the colour will lessen; it's like that in the war where lives were lost and they dump them into rivers and stuff.

the blood flowed out, but after a while the blood gets washed away.one drop of ink in the ocean will not make much of a difference. in a way it's pretty much like us. how we feel that our many good deeds will make up for whatever small mistake we have done.we try to do so much so that our mistakes will seem insignificant and negligible. in our eyes, we are cleared.but we forget. like

two lefts doesn't make 1 right.even if we drop that drop of ink into the ocean, we may not see it.but the fact is that there are little ink molecules swimming around in it. likewise with a cup of water. even if the ink within is so negligible that i cannot see it, would i dare to drink it knowing that there is ink inside?

what then?another way is that we simply add more and more ink.since i already know that the cup of water is a lost cause,i might as well use it to wash the paint from my paintbrush.in a way we simply give up and retreat further and further into sin.is there then no hope for us?

simply no way to quench the thirst since the water is dirty? we know there is yet another way. and that is salvation in Jesus.we understand it in that through him he will cleanse us of our sins. to us sometimes we think about him miraculously sucking out all the ink molecules from the water. or perhaps using distillation to get clean water again.

but what about being 'born again'? He is not simply cleaning that water the way newater works.THis means taking that cup, throwing away the water, washing that cup, and filling it with clean water.Because really, that is the only way to ensure that the water is pure and clean. THis means that we are no longer the same; no longer that same water we once was. we are new. the REAL newater.

and he does that, over and over again. everytime we are stained with ink, all we need to do is go back to him, and we are being made new. i guess that part is difficult to understand. the part of being poured away. sometimes we go ask him for forgiveness, and while we know intellectually that our sins are being washed away,we still feel that it is difficult to deal with it.

But reminding ourselves that because we have asked for forgiveness, we are being changed forever,into water that has never been marred before, perhaps it might remind us to keep that cup of water clean.

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11:49:00 AM

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