One Piece Of Junk

A little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise! Galatians 5:9

Ruined! One lapse of judgment and all of the efforts at cleaning up the property were brought to ruin by the one piece of junk he allowed in. Yes, the phone call of grudging complaint confirmed it the other morning. So much for three months of effort and expense. This bit of judgment may not be correct, but it does make for a great example for those who would stand before God's judgment throne and depend upon their own goodness. Imagine the eternal horror of the books being opened and a lifetime of effort failing to compensate for that one bit of sin junk revealed therein. 

I picture my good deeds like a pile of dirty, yellow feathers. Dirty because there is a self-interest in doing good deeds to compensate for evil deeds. Yellow because they are done out of a sense of fear of punishment since I must or should do them as I have been taught. Feathers since when the dense, dark, weight of my sin is placed on the other side of the balance, they go flying, almost weightless, and do me no good by way of compensating. Praise God for providing a way, or maybe that should be a Way, since He is a person and He has a name. 

Praise God for Jesus!

Bucky