Seriously, I don't think it is EVER going to quit raining! And the fog! Good gracious I have never seen so much fog in my life! I am beginning to think that we were all uprooted one night and carefully placed in Seattle, Washington without our knowledge! Rain and fog, rain and fog that is our daily forecast right now. But, I'm thankful for it as well. In years past we have had such a rain drought every year that I am almost positive we don't have that problem right now. Shoot, we may even have an overage for next year?!?! I don't know anything about that sort of stuff but it fun to talk about anyway.
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I was driving to work this morning doing the usual stop and go, brakes and gas, fast and slow and in between sitting still I was reading my Sunday School lesson. Look, when you are stuck in traffic you learn to make the best out of those quiet moments! My lesson for the week is continuing on with the Christmas story out of Luke and I'm reading and thinking and praying and my windows and outside mirrors keep fogging up. I click defrost for a few seconds and then the traffic begins to move. I lay my Sunday School book down and drive a whole 100 yards it seemed like and traffic stopped again. I picked my book up and continued reading when I glanced up to see what the traffic situation was to only find my windows and outside mirrors fogged up again. Defrost! This continued on and off as I read my lesson. When I was finished reading I began to pray specifically for some things when my windows fogged up yet again. Defrost! On this click of the defrost I began to thank God for my blog. I thanked him for using this blog to teach me daily and how I stand amazed at how much I have learned from him in such a short time when all of a sudden...you guessed it...my windows and outside mirrors fogged up again! As I reached over to click defrost it felt as if God spoke to my heart and said "Sin is like the fog. It fogs everything up so you can't see, but I am the defroster!" I started grinning from ear to ear and began to think.
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God is the defroster! Hmmm, how about that?!?! Sin is everywhere. It loomes over us like a dark shadow day in and day out. We struggle to stay away from it but at every turn there is something there to tempt us. We pray, we go to church, we surround ourselves with Christian friends but that sin is still out there lurking just waiting to fog up our windows. We all trip and fall. We all sin but isn't it wonderful that God can defrost our windows for us! He can wipe them clean so that we can clearly see once again and continue on our path. The Lord says in Isaiah 1:18 "...'Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow'..." See...he is our defroster!
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