Right
now at work we are in our soccer unit.
I
am fairly certain my whole school thinks they are Brazilian
because,
across the board, they are obsessed with soccer.
We
have these awesome pop-up goals.
One
of those awesome inventions that takes a master mind to figure out how to close
it.
Yesterday
we had brought out one too many goals so a kid brought me the extra one.
He
gave it to me and I grabbed the two handles so that I could close the net.
What
the student failed to tell me was that prior to this,
he
had dragged the goal through the mud.
So
I now had red clay all over my hands.
Instead
of closing the net, I set it aside until the mud dried.
I
was not interested more mud than necessary on my hands.
Once
the mud was dry and my hands were clean,
I
closed the net.
As
this is going on,
I
am praising God that He does not do to us as I did with the net.
We
get ourselves into so much trouble.
So
much muck.
So
much mud.
Sometimes
we are able to pull ourselves out.
Sometimes
not.
Sometimes
it takes a God bigger than ourselves to drag us out of the mud.
But
regardless of how we get out of the mud of sin,
the
Lord is there ready to clean us off.
He
doesn’t wait for us to dry so as to keep His hands clean.
He
gets right in the middle of our gross attachment to sin.
He
cleans off that mud.
He
gets dirty too.
He
takes care of that mud.
He
offers forgiveness.
We
are about to begin the sacred season of Lent.
Many
churches are offering Penance services.
Your
church is setting up a time for Jesus to clean that mud off of you.
Take
advantage of it.
Jesus doesn’t treat you the way that I treated
the goal.
He
does not want you to remain in sin.
He
wants you to be free of the sins chaining you down.
There
is nothing that you can confess to the priest,
in
persona Christi,
in
the person of Christ,
that
he has not heard.
There is no sin that you have committed that Jesus cannot forgive you for.
We just have to seek that forgiveness.
Go ahead.
Let Him get that mud off your soul.
He is waiting for you.
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