Soul snack 8/125 ... Backing God!
(This is a true story.)
His head turned 90 degrees towards the deepest and most inconsolable weeping this middle aged missionary had ever heard.
In clothes of poverty she sat, barren yet again. The starkness of the river bank just a metaphor of this young Indian's life.
Both alone and lonely, despairing in her unknown sorrow, her damp dark eyes met his. As their eyes met his heart too was torn. With this heartfelt sadness and soft tone he inquires, 'why so sad?'
Her reply, 'I am still guilty. I cannot remove my sin.' (I wonder if westerners feel guilt so strongly?)
His large palm stretched broad, he reassuringly places it upon her heaving shoulder. This touch of care she receives well.
Softly he speaks of Jesus' sin bearing, His nail pierced hands, the Calvary of love. Forgiveness that lasts forever is still available.
Tears now flow with greater volume. Her chest rises with deeper intensity and her now desperate gasps for air far more frequent and shallow.
Genuinely surprised by her response to the good news of release from guilt in Jesus he asks, 'why are there even more tears and sadness now?'
Unhelpfully and most unhappily, she vehemently chides him, 'Why weren't you here 10 minutes ago when I sacrificed my newborn son to this river to atone for my sins?'
This young and tormented mother knew her sins, but did not know her saviour.
In your love you kept me, from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back. Is 38:17
If my sins are behind God's back, He is unable to see them and recover them. They are out of His sight.Think too, when my sins are behind His back, I too am unable to see them.
God has placed all my sins behind His back, but not me!