I’m sure I’ve talked about this before, but I just keep coming back to it. This is a problem that Christians have had for about as long as there have been Christians. We keep on holding on to guilt. Let me decompress this with a little story, rather than continuing a rant that I won’t even be able to follow:
A man owns a diesel car. He’s low on fuel and in a rush, so he stops at a station and fills the tank up with gas. As you can imagine, the gasoline really screws up the diesel engine, and the man feels pretty bad. The man gets the car towed to his trusted mechanic.
The mechanic does his little bit of magic (I bet you didn’t know that mechanics actually use magic), and the car is as good as new. The man looks at the car, takes it out for a quick drive, then comes back to the mechanic, “Wow, I sure broke this car.”
“It works just as well now, if not better though, doesn’t it?” the solid old mechanic replies.
The man keeps going on, “Well, I guess so. But I really screwed up the engine.”
“That is true, but I fixed it. It’s fixed now, so you can stop talking about how much you screwed it up.”
“Sorry, it’s just that I’m so good at breaking things.” the man admits, thinking that he’s being humble.
The mechanic, gently but firmly corrects the man, “Look son, I don’t care how good you think you are at breaking things; I will always be able to fix it. I will always be better at fixing things than you are at breaking them.”
We act exactly like the man in the story when we try to hold on to our guilt. God is always going to be better at fixing us than we are at screwing up.
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