Don't you just love a good eraser?!  As a teacher, I find it utterly necessary that all kids have a great eraser when they do their work.  Even though erasers are on every one's back to school shopping list, and the kids start off on the first day of school with them, there are still different types of kids that use erasers in different ways.  They are all equipped with the erasers, but there are some kids who:  1) choose not to use the eraser at all and just cross out their faulty work and write the correct answer next to it, 2) kids that don't even bother to cross out their work and just simply write over the wrong letters and try to make it work somehow, 3) the light erasers - you know those that attempt to erase, but just fail to get it even remotely gone, and then 4) the kids that will put holes in their paper because they just can't get things erased enough no matter how hard they try.  There are so many times that I wish I could just pull out a big eraser and scrub as hard as I could to get rid of my sins, my wrongdoings.  There are times that I know that I thought if I just crossed it off in my head, that those sins would disappear.  There are times when a sin just didn't seem big enough to matter, so I just "wrote" over it and thought no one would notice.  There are times when I tried so hard to erase what I have done and then ended up making a bigger mess of things than I started off with.  The point of this is, that no matter how hard we all try to erase our past, our sins, our faults, WE CAN'T!!  But I do have some amazing news.........Jesus Christ is our eraser!!  Jesus came to this earth so that we could have our slates wiped clean.  He lived a perfect and holy life and became a sacrifice for our sins as He died on the cross.  His forgiveness is our eraser.  He has forgiven everything, as long as we accept Him and then FOLLOW Him!  It reminds me of my kids.  When my 7 year old accidentally writes on the wall, she apologizes, I get out the magic eraser and take care of it, and then I expect her to teacher her younger siblings not to do the same.  If she doesn't apologize and confess her sin to me, I won't be able to forgive her and erase it.  She could just leave the marks there or try to get rid of them herself, but they will never be gone.  Confessing what has happened is the only way that I will be able to get it off.  And then if she doesn't teach her siblings, then they will make the same mistakes eventually, and she will have not have learned that writing on the wall is unacceptable.  Asking for forgiveness is the best eraser you will ever get.  No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to erase the things you have done, but only through the blood of Jesus Christ can your sins be completely forgiven. 

Hebrews 9:14
How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

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