Monday, June 21, 2004

God's thick cloud.

There were beautiful clouds in the sky Saturday. Big, thick, billowy clouds.

Yesterday morning during family worship, we paused in our reading to discuss this verse:

"I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee" (Isaiah 44:22).

We we're talking about how God covers our sins with Christ's righteousness. One of the kids asked how it is that God sees everything, but does not see our sins, as if a cloud covered them. We then talked about God being all-seeing and all-knowing, and yet He chooses not to keep our sins in His view, before His eye, hold them against us, because He loves us. This is where Conner came up with a wonderful example. He says, "That's kinda like Noah's sons, who walked backwards and covered their dad with a blanket instead of looking at him naked." Yeah, it's kinda like that, isn't it?

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