GOSPEL NUGGET #518

The Pencil And The Eraser

I got this illustration from a video that I saw. I thought that I should turn it into something evangelistic.

You see, as the pencil goes on doing about his writing life, he oftentimes makes mistakes here and there, every now and then, making a mess of himself. But then the eraser comes along and erases it all for him. Each time, the eraser gets hurt and loses a little bit of himself, and then, eventually, he will go. He gave his life for the pencil, so to speak.

That pencil is you. The paper is your life. The eraser is the Lord Jesus Christ. We have made a mess of our lives. Strewn across the pages of our lives are the multitudinous sins that we have committed. Each page is dotted and blemished with sins. Our own efforts to cross it out only leaves darker marks on our lives.

Then the Lord Jesus came. To blot out our sins, He suffered the agony of the cross and lost His very life. What we could not do, He can and He will, if we entrust the cleaning up our lives to Him. Come to Him in faith and have your sins blotted out.