I....need....a..........Band-Aid!! Now throw in a puddle of tears and a lot of sobbing and there you have a typical reaction to a boo-boo from my three year old. Sometimes the boo-boo is so small that one Band-Aid will do the job but then there are some that will take several Band-Aids and my patch working skills to cover. Ultimately she just wants the pain to go away so the Band-Aid serves as a quick fix. .....Until........ it's time to take the Band-Aid off! The stickiness of our "quick fix" has now created new, unwanted consequences. What can I say....it's hard to be three!
No matter how young or how old we are, we will all get physical boo-boos but what about our spiritual boo- boos, you know
the pains and hurts that we've caused and created because of our sin. God's word says that all have sinned and we all fall short of the glory of God. (Romans3:23). Too often we try to cover up our sins with a "quick fix" band-aid but eventually our sin gets sticky and messy and that Band-Aid has to be ripped off! It's time to throw away all the Band-Aids and all the excuses that we make to cover up our sin and take a daily dose of repentance. Ephesians 5:6-8,11 puts it this way,"Don’t be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the anger of God will fall on all who disobey him. Don’t participate in the things these people do. For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them." Throughout history God has always called his people to repentance and it is still true today.
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