Corrie ten Boom told about a little girl who once broke a beatiful antique cup of her mother’s. She was very sad about it and took the pieces to her mother. Her mother said, “I can see that you are very sorry. I forgive you. Throw the pieces in the trash can.”

The next day the little girl saw the pieces in the trash can. She took them out and again went to her motehr and said: “Mommy, yesterday I broke this cup. Please forgive me.”

“Leave those pieces in the trash can and only remmeber the forgiveness,” her mother said.

Are we not like the little girl sometimes? We ask God for forgiveness again and again for the same sin. We keep dregging up memories of it, but God doesn’t.

We are guilty! God knows it. What penalty does that deserve? The death penalty? Jesus paid it. What more can he do? Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’, or ‘Take up your bed and walk’? Since you’ve already been forgiven, pick up your bed and start walking like Christ!

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