• Showers of Grace

    By: Kristen L. McNulty

    Reprint rights available on request. Email the author at kristenmcnulty@hotmail.com.

    Ever since the Garden of Eden, we humans have the tendency to do something when we sin or mess up and that thing is hide. Just like Adam and Eve hid from God in the bushes after taking the forbidden bite of fruit, we tend to hide from God when we know we've sinned.

    This tendency is a dangerous one because while you are hiding, you are consumed by shame and often people consumed by shame continue walking in darkness and sin because they are too sheepish and defeated to go back to walking in the light with God. In that place one mistake can turn into two and two into three and three into a lifetime of them. Until one day you wake up so far away from who you are that you don't recognize the face in the mirror anymore.

    If today you're finding yourself hiding in the shadows, ashamed of the sin in your life I have one thing to say to you: get out of the shadows and get yourself face to face with God.

    Yes it's humbling to admit we made a mistake but there's no reason to be afraid to approach Him or wonder if He's going to forgive you this time. As God's word tells us:

    "So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most." (Hebrews 4:16)

    If sin is like dirt stuck to your skin, God's grace is the water in your shower that cleans it away and sends it down the drain, never to be seen again.

    We all sin, but the Bible makes it clear we are all worthy of His grace. Romans 3:23-35: "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."

    So no matter how far you've wandered or how many mistakes you've made, let today be the last day you play hide with God, instead let the moments you fail be the moments you seek instead.

    Then you will find that God's forgiveness is all-encompassing. His grace is all-consuming. His love is all-embracing. And His redemption is all-powerful.

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