Acts 3:19 NASB “Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

My son picked up some rocks while he was playing outside and carried them around. When we went inside to wash up, he had managed to hang on to one of them and refused to give it up while washing his hands. Well, I thought, I’ll just wash the rock too, while I wash his hands, and then he can keep it, no tears needed! I kept washing and washing and more and more dirty water rinsed off until I finally decided it was a very hard dirt clod, not a rock after all, and it would never get clean! (And yes there were tears when I took it away.)

If we try to come to Christ while we hang on to our sins, well, we’ll never get clean. We have to repent and allow God to remove the sin from our lives, so that we can be refreshed in His presence!

-Kevi

 

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