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Magic DeMarker



   A few years back the congregation I worked for installed new dry erase boards into the classrooms. Even though we put the correct markers in the room and let everyone know to only use the dry erase markers on the boards, it wasn’t too long till someone wrote all over the board with a permanent marker.

  Not wanting to have to replace the entire board, I made several attempts with various solvents and scrubs to erase the damage. No luck. Then I ran across this piece of advice: “Write over the mark with a dry erase marker and erase, it will remove the permeant markers.” I thought there is no way it could work. It too simple, but it was that easy.  Wrong made right by doing it right.


  Wish life was that easy. We all have marks on our clean slate that we wish we could get rid of. We might scrub at them but what we think will take away the stain doesn’t work. It seems damaged beyond repair, forever stains with the mistake of sin.

  Yet there is just a simple solution. Do it God’s way. If we follow his command for our lives, we can write over those bad marks and take them away. What’s impossible for us to cleanse, he can wipe away in a stroke. He has the solvent that can erase sin.

 However many won’t take the advice. We’re convinced his way is too simple, it won’t work. Our sin is too big too dark too damaging. It couldn’t be that easy.

  But it is.

  What is impossible for man isn’t impossible for God. Sin can be taken away. Only if we do what God intended for us in the first place. Wrong can be made right if we do it the right way, his way.

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