Forgiveness of Sins
A missionary on one of the islands
was sitting in his cool seaside hut one day when one of the village women came
in, carrying a handful of dripping sand she had just picked up off the beach.
"Do you know what this is?" she asked. "It looks like
sand," said the missionary. "Do you know why I brought it here?"
she asked. "No. I can't imagine why," the padre answered. "Well,
these are my sins," the women explained. "My sins are as countless as
the sands of the sea. How can I ever obtain forgiveness for all of them.?"
"You got that sand down by the shore, didn't you?" said the
missionary. "Well, take it back there, and pile it up into a heaping mound
of sand at the water's edge. Then you sit back and watch the tide come in and
slowly wash away the pile altogether. That is how God's forgiveness
works."...
God says to
the people: "Now, let's settle this matter. You are stained red with sin,
but I will wash you as clean as snow. Although your stains are deep red, you
will be as white as wool."
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