One rainy afternoon I was driving along one of the main streets of Atlanta, taking those extra precautions necessary when the roads are wet and slick. Suddenly, my young son, Michael, spoke up from his relaxed position in his seat. “Dad, I’m thinking of something.”
This usually meant he had been pondering some fact for a while, and was now ready to expound all that his six-year-old mind had discovered. I was interested to hear what he had to share.
“What are you thinking?” I asked.
“The rain!;” he began, “is like sin, and the windshield wipers are like God wiping our sins away.” I thought, Geez a six year old came up with that . . . I said, “That’s really good, Michael.”
Then my curiosity broke in. How far would Michael take this revelation? So I asked . . . “Do you notice how the rain keeps on coming? What does that tell you?”
He didn’t hesitate one moment with his answer: “We keep on sinning, and God just keeps on forgiving us.”
Whenever I turn my wipers on I think of this conversation. I suppose that the lesson to be learned here is to go to the Lord daily and we must continually seek God’s forgiveness, because we are sure to sin every day!
Ephesians 4:31
“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”