What Does Your Sin Box Look Like?

Day 28 of Photo Inspirations —
Yesterday, I was so inspired at church as I watched the 2nd Grade children, who will soon be receiving their First Communion, bring their “sin boxes” down the aisle and place them at the altar.  They had written their mistakes (i.e., disobedience, fibbing, misbehavior, selfishness, etc.), on pieces of paper, and put them in their boxes.  Those kids left their sins at the altar, and they know they will be forgiven.  What a beautiful way to know that though they made some mistakes (sinned), they’re able to start over again with a clean slate. One of the Moms told me that those notes inside the boxes will be destroyed.  And, isn’t that what God does when we apologize and come to Him for forgiveness?  He forgives and forgets and washes us white as snow.  Yes, those small shoe boxes, are quite sufficient to hold those less-than-lofty sins of those children.  I thought, “If we adults put our sins in a box — it would take a train’s BOX-car to hold them all!”  LOL!

I love how these children are being taught.  It’s no surprise that we all came into the world with an insatiable ability to “sin”.  Even before we were born, we were already programmed for sin and selfishness. Bottom line, our kids got their bent for sin from us, we got it from our parents, our parents got it from their parents and so on — all the way back to Adam and Eve.  Their disobedience paid it forward to us.

So, like the parents of these precious children this morning, our top priority as a parent and grandparent, is to be an evangelist in our homes. It’s up to us to teach our children God’s love and laws, show them their need for a Savior, and point them to Jesus Christ as the only One who can give them a clean new slate.  We can teach them by our example of our commitment to do what’s right!  Then, we can rest assured, that with God’s help, and our model, our kids will know they can always apologize for doing wrong, ask for forgiveness, and the ONE who loves us most, is always there to say “Neither do I condemn you, now go and sin no more!”