John 3:16,17 - You Can’t Erase This!

My View From “The Chair” This Morning - John 15:12.  Sitting with a homeschool student here on the Perth YWAM base yesterday, I was helping her with a project.  I’m sure you’ll remember what it was like to be told you had to do something for school and you had no idea what or how to do it.  Pretty frustrating.  Suddenly, like a hummingbird seeing a source of food, she picks up her pencil and starts to write a fanciful big “L”.  She is using all her might.  She is pressing so hard her pencil breaks several times.  I’m thinking she is frustrated.  Then, she pauses, looks at me and says, “God’s Love for us is not eraseable!”  Then she picks up a big eraser and tries to erase it.  No matter how hard she pushes or how many times she rubs, it is still faintly on the paper.  I sat in awe absorbing the truth of what I just saw and heard from this ten year old.  She went back and finished the rest of the word and I sat, stunned, in silence.  

NOTHING we do can erase God’s love for you and I. God generously sacrificed His one and only son for our sins.  Just like heavy pencil lead is impossible to totally erase, so is the blood of God’s son.  It has been spilled to wash us clean.  If you’ve ever had a blood stain on your clothes you can testify to the fact that even when it looks like it has been removed, it is still there deep in the fibers. I know we’ve all heard it before, but if you are struggling with truly understanding and grasping this truth - that God’s love for you is irrevocable, try my little friends idea with the pencil lead and then hang is somewhere with this verse underneath.  Look at it.  Repeat it several times a day out loud.  Use your audible voice to ask our Father to write it on your heart.  

Until We Chat Again,
The Plank-Eyed Girl