I’ll probably never meet Kara but this little 4 year old has helped me in the simplest way. “We had been standing on the hillside watching the airplane skywriting,” her grandmother wrote me one day. “When the words disappear, she asked, “Why Grandma? Where do they go?”
“Then as I groped for an answer, her face brightened and she suddenly exclaimed, “Maybe Jesus has an eraser!”
I smiled as I read but my eyes was filled with tears. For that morning I had been grieving over past mistakes. One tender but painful memory releases others: the time I mistreated someone, took the wrong decision, said cruel words to my parents, judged others unfairly or even let a friend down.
No matter how we try to compensate the mistakes we have done, some memories of our own failures may haunt and sting us. I have asked God to forgive me and try to believe that I’m forgiven but the memory won’t go away and if I can’t forgive myself, how can God?
Then a little girl, in her innocence and wisdom, makes me realize: Like that writing on the sky that simply disappears. Jesus has wiped away the things I so bitterly regret.
Yes, Jesus does have an eraser.
Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins.
- M. Holmes
“Then as I groped for an answer, her face brightened and she suddenly exclaimed, “Maybe Jesus has an eraser!”
I smiled as I read but my eyes was filled with tears. For that morning I had been grieving over past mistakes. One tender but painful memory releases others: the time I mistreated someone, took the wrong decision, said cruel words to my parents, judged others unfairly or even let a friend down.
No matter how we try to compensate the mistakes we have done, some memories of our own failures may haunt and sting us. I have asked God to forgive me and try to believe that I’m forgiven but the memory won’t go away and if I can’t forgive myself, how can God?
Then a little girl, in her innocence and wisdom, makes me realize: Like that writing on the sky that simply disappears. Jesus has wiped away the things I so bitterly regret.
Yes, Jesus does have an eraser.
Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins.
- M. Holmes
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