Hidden In Plain Sight...

Yesterday morning as I was running on Rails-to-Trails I noticed many things that had been there all summer and fall, but I had never seen them:  FOOT PRINTS.  I know there's a man who parks his truck in the Rails-to Trails parking lot and walks to work nearly every day.  Yesterday for the first time I saw where he veered off the trail and into the woods to his work place.  I saw rabbit tracks, deer tracks, squirrel tracks, and even a mole as it scurried across the trail in front of me--well actually, I saw the SNOW mounding up and then falling back nearly in place as the mole ran under it.  What made all of the things that had been there every day I've run on the trail was the fresh, white snow that had been falling and was still falling as I ran. 

Immediately, a thought occurred to me:  each of us has sins in our lives that are "invisible" to others.  We don't see them as we pass at school, work, in the community, or even on Sunday mornings at worship, but they're there.  God sees them.  Their "tracks" are visible to Him.  The amazing truth of Scripture, though, is that even though our sins be as scarlet--a most brilliant and visible hue--they shall be as WHITE as SNOW through the blood of Jesus.  The next time you see the snow, think of Jesus and His most precious gift of forgiveness, which doesn't just "cover" our sins, but washes them away!

Comments

[Erika]

Great Analogy Chris... very true