Wash Away

My heart and prayers are with the suffering in Japan. There is absolutely no way I can know how that experience has already drastically changed their lives. but one overriding thought keeps coming to me...


Ash Wednesday, as I sit in the sanctuary and participate in the service, I hear the words,


"Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world",


for the first time I got it.

The whole world,

all sin,


He takes it away,


just believe.


I have believed it but it suddenly became so real.....so very real.


Then came April 11. The morning broke with the news of the tsunami and then the audio and the video soon after.


It seemed so surreal. Unbelievable that so much could be swept away. So much. So big. So powerful. Such aftermath of carnage beyond anything I can fathom.


Sin. It seems so surreal that so much could be swept away. So big. So powerful. such carnage.

Beyond anything I can fathom....but


Jesus the Christ came to take our sin away. Our personal sin. He can sweep it away as far as the east is from the west. He remembers it no more. His power to completely cleanse is the higher power. More powerful than any massive destruction the earth can throw at us. If only we believe....


that He is able to save to the utmost. that He is the Son of God. He can make the foulest clean, He wants to do this for us. Have we put ourselves out there and just trusted Him? It is never to late, so why not now? He loves you more than you will ever know.


There is debris of enormous magnitude left over after the water recedes in Japan. So our lives have to deal with the aftermath of our sin, but God's grace is greater than all our sin to carry us through all the cleanup, the life change, the new start we will receive.


My prayer is that Japan will be overwhelmed by the love of the true God for them and that a new life will be theirs in every possible way. How about you...do you need this washing away of your past, that pushing away of everything in the path to true forgiveness in Christ? My prayer is that you will be overwhelmed by the love of God for you and that a new life will be yours in every possible way.

"For God so loved the world

that He gave His only Son

that whosoever believes on Him

should not perish

but have everlasting life.

He came not into the world

to condemn the world,

but that the world,

through Him,

might be saved."

John 3:16-17

(I have infused many quotes from various sources. Better words than mine.)