Writing in the sand, writing in stone
Monday, May 29th, 2023
by Ken Pullen
The indented in Italics opening is not an original story. I came across this online. My brief comments follow;
Two friends were walking through the desert. At a specific point in the journey, they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face.
The one who got slapped was hurt, but without anything to say, he wrote in the sand: “Today, my best friend slapped me in the face.”
They kept on walking until they found an oasis where they decided to take a refreshing swim. The one who had been slapped started drowning, and the other friend saved him. When he recovered from the experience, he wrote on a stone: “Today, my best friend saved my life.”
The friend who saved and slapped his best friend, asked him, “Why, after I hurt you, you wrote in the sand, and now you write on a stone?”
The other friend, smiling, replied: “When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand where the winds of forgiveness get charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it.”
When we truly repent and humble ourselves before the Lord and ask Him to help us, heal us, forgive us of our sin in committing our life to the Lord Jesus Christ, becoming His disciple, one way to think of every sin at that point in being renewed of mind and spirit is the Lord writing every sin in sand and a wind coming along erasing everything that was written.
And when we turn to the Lord, in love, in hope, in faith, in truth having Him became preeminent in our life, serving Him, it is as if He writes our name in stone where no wind, no element, nothing can erase our name from the Rock.
When on the cross, spotless, blameless, sinless, dying for the sin of any and every person who would turn to Him in faith seeking forgiveness of their sin, Jesus said of those that horrifically nailed Him to the tree of shame, the most horrific way to die…
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Luke 23:34
No matter the degree, amount, or length of time spent alien to God, refusing Jesus as the Christ, as a personal Saviour how much more eternal forgiveness will be showered upon a repentant, humble, sincere heart and mind turning from the darkness of serving this fallen world to the Light, the Way, the Truth and the only way to eternal life — the Lord Jesus Christ.
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