{"id":1469,"date":"2019-11-15T17:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T00:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2019-11-14T12:50:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:50:44","slug":"forgiven-sins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Forgiven Sins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We were at the YMCA of the Rockies<\/a> this week for a (working) getaway, and I saw for the first time a little trail behind one of the chapels marked out with the familiar ACTS prayer acrostic: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication. As I wrote yesterday<\/a>, I\u2019ve been meditating on our status as forgiven sinners. Here\u2019s the trail sign with its exercise for Confession and forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Confession and Forgiveness: write your sins in the sand…then erase them!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So I knelt in front of the sandbox, wrote some sins into the sand, confessed them to God, then erased them. Very profound if you think about it. There\u2019s no technology that will restore writing in the sand that has been erased!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My scripture reading for today was John 8.1 – 11<\/a>, Jesus\u2019 encounter with the woman taken in adultery. The obvious takeaway is \u201cNeither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.\u201d <\/em>But here\u2019s another. Much speculation has centered around what Jesus was writing in the sand. I\u2019ve heard more than one preacher suggest that Jesus was writing the sins of the accusers, and that\u2019s why they felt guilty and left.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the good news is, that if Jesus had written their sins in the sand, he was communicating, \u201cYou can be forgiven, too! It\u2019s just sand.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Paul confessed in 1 Timothy 1.15<\/a>, he was one of those kinds of guys! A judgmental Pharisee. And Jesus forgave his sins. And mine. And yours.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace… (Ephesians 1.7, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were at the YMCA of the Rockies this week for a (working) getaway, and I saw for the first time a little trail behind one of the chapels marked out with the familiar ACTS prayer acrostic: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication. As I wrote yesterday, I\u2019ve been meditating on our status as forgiven sinners. Here\u2019s … Continue reading Forgiven Sins<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-nH","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}