Storytime

When the Past Is Too Dark to Color

Have you ever felt too dirty to ask for help?

“Lord, if you will, can you make me clean?” (Photo: CCXpistiavos)

Perhaps because of your sins. The one you committed a very long time ago and swore to never talk of it again but still haunts your thoughts and tells you you don't deserve love and forgiveness? Or perhaps the little sins you said you’d never do again, but always break your promise?

Or the way you speak to your mother, making her sad and telling you you'll regret the way you treat her in her olden days? Or how you refused to go home and visit your old grandpa claiming to always be busy with work and then he passed away calling your name?

Or maybe because of your own dark mental voice, you know, the one that thinks very dark thoughts about others and yourself, or maybe it's the way you get angry at God when life gets too hard and you curse His name.

Maybe it's because of a disease that's making you feel unworthy to go before God. What do we do when we feel too dirty to go to God?

Let me share a story with you:

In Matthew Chapter 8, there’s a story about Jesus and the leper. In the olden days, people with leprosy were considered “unclean.” They were seen as unfit to be around “clean” people and unfit to be in the temple to worship.