I can.....

Okay, okay..I know Adam Sandler movies are not ones I should be quoting but here I go anyway. In the movie Big Daddy, Sonny (Adam Sandler) is a lazy law school graduate who ends up watching a young boy, Julian, and then decides to keep him. Towards the end of the movie CPS realizes that Sonny isn't the real father and they come to his home to take the Julian away. Julian shouts as they take him away, "But I can wipe my own butt...I can wipe my own butt!!" In Julian's head he blames himself for CPS coming. He feels as if he would have done all the things right this wouldn't be happening. Don't we all feel that way? If only I had not done that awful thing, said that lie, or had a bad attitude. If only.

Yesterday I was mowing the lawn only the second time I had done it in my whole life. As I was mowing Julian's words came to mind, "But I can mow my own lawn...I can mow my own lawn." I was feeling the anxiety a child feels when they do something wrong and then try to make up for it. I guess I am trying to make up for all the wrong things I have done by mowing the lawn, sounds silly huh?

The beauty of having Jesus as our savior is that we don't have to make up for any wrong doing, all we have to do is repent and move forward. Sounds easy enough, but we make it difficult.
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, Acts 3:19. It's easy and Jesus longs to give us a new chance without anything else but repentance from the heart. We might suffer some consequences from our wrong actions, but God is there to make it all new again. Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26

Jesus says, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." I need some rest, don't you?

Seek HIM, He is waiting for you.

Marisol