The White Wall

I was painting one of the rooms in the church the other day and it gave me a great picture of God's grace (along with paint stains and muscle aches but the revelation was fantastic).

Religion is like a white wall.

As I was saying, religion is like your very own precious white wall. Unfortunately everyday, either you or someone else will ruin the pristine whiteness of your white wall. You spill some ink on it, you back your car into it, a dog pees on it, thugs paint graffiti on it and after awhile it kind of looks like this:

So you spend everyday repainting your wall, layer upon layer upon layer because you hope to present a perfectly white wall to God one day. (In case you're wondering yes I painted room in my church white).

Sounds pretty depressing right? God thought so too. So He came into the picture and destroyed that wall and said "You can stop fussing over that silly wall. From now on all I want from you is a relationship based on MY love, not your performance."

Jesus came so that we don't have to spend our lives covering up our mistakes to please God. Jesus died to show us a better way - coming before God not covered in white paint (which gets dirty reaaaaally easily by the way) but covered in the blood of Christ which covers all our mistakes and will never come off. His love has given us free access to God!

So ask yourself, are you still painting a white wall? Because the truth is, the wall's already destroyed and your Father who loves you is waiting. Put down that brush and go to Him.

GOD LOVES YOU.