"Any
number X 0 always = 0, huh!"
As a third grade teacher, I often found
myself making up silly chants like the one above. While chants are great for instilling one message
in a child’s mind, they are also really great for getting kids to line up
quickly and in a somewhat fashionable order. Admittedly, the latter was my cherished
result, but I’m glad that my third-graders-turned-college-students-overnight
still know the truth about multiplying numbers by 0.
Unfortunately, in our spiritual lives,
we forget this very basic equation:
ANY
SIN (even your 1,893,423rd one) X CHRIST (zero sins) always = RIGHTEOUSNESS (zero sin), HUH!
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John 1: 9—“If we confess our sins, he
is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Psalm
103:12—“…as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove
our transgressions from us.”
Hebrews
10:17—“…I will remember
their sins and their lawless deeds no
more.”
It doesn’t matter how large the first
factor gets, the answer is always ZERO
sin! Christ knew before He died 2,000 years ago how many sins we would commit,
and He forgave all of them on the
cross. When we add variables to Christ’s work on the cross, we change the
equation!
There is NOTHING else needed, NO additional confession, NO additional penance, NO additional good works to
cancel out the bad.
Nothing.
Zero.
That makes me wanna say, “Huh!”
~Rebecca Phillips
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