Today I heard for the first time about the great pacific garbage barge. Apparently, given the natural currents, much of the trash that is disposed of into the ocean collects around a certain place in the Pacific. Over time this has created a massive barge of garbage twice the size of Texas!! Can you imagine what that must look like? What it must smell like?
Now that reality is beyond disturbing, but what is more disturbing is this. We all have our own sin barge. Trash from our sins which we put "out of sight out of mind" instead of dealing with, does it really disappear? The answer is no. Just because you refuse to acknowledge it does not mean it is not there. It wreaks havoc on our lives- and it just plain reaks! Think about the sin in your life, in your past. Can you count how many times you have made a bad choice? Done what you knew to be wrong? Lied? Stolen? Cheated? Now you have this monstrous pile of wasted debris floating around your life. What was meant to be a beautiful sea of blessings and communion with God. What can you do with it? Can you fix every wrong? No way.
Thankfully, God made a way to handle the barge in our lives. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to the earth to live and die to take on our trash, our waste. He invites us to confess our sins to Him, cast all our cares onto Him. And then what? He washes us white as snow. What freedom! What a gift!
