A Holy Eracer

I got a text, from a father, this morning concerned with his son's inability to believe God's is active and accepting in his own life.  Yet he believes in God's activity in the lives of others. 

In my prayers for his son an analogy came to mind that has been helpful to me in the past. 

Imagine an eraser. 

What is looks like.  

What it feels like when you hold it in you hands.

Then think about what it can do.

I am thinking that it can offer a poor speller, like me, another chance to get it right.  

It can take our mistakes and rub them out with no trace of the mistake ever happening.

Better yet, it can allow for new possibilities.   It can allow for new words, ideas and understandings. 

I see God as the Great Eraser.  One who is constantly erasing and making new.

Taking how our life has written our story; and changing the unfortunate with a swipe of the holy eraser in his merciful hand. 

Making what was no more; so a new adventures can begins.

Imagine that.  

Imagine being able to just forgive yourself and move on.  Free of any guilt.

Imagine that can happen in your life as well as mine.  

Because it is absolutely the truth that there are no impossibilities when it comes to God. 

…God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, ¹⁴erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross.(Col. 2)