Christ Jesus, Blot out my transgressions, O my Redeemer…

 
Psalm 51

 
The forgiveness of sins is not magic that we don’t have one minute and have the next.  Nor it is something we work for and achieve. The forgiveness of sin, that is the propitiation or appeasement of our sins, is the application of the crucified body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ Jesus that ‘soaks up sin’ and saves us from being prey to the powers and principalities of evil and darkness that attempt to divert us, make us ‘transgress’ away from God our Father and the life we have in Him. In grade four I graduated into the world of writing in ink.  With a straight pen, a bottle of blue ink sunk into an inkwell in my desk and a piece of thick, porous blotting paper, we were set! Invariably blobs and spills of ink happened in our exercise books, on our desks, and stained our fingers. The trick was to apply the blotting paper as soon as possible, to make the stains lighter or to be blotted up altogether. It was a messy business! Life is a messy business!  Using the pen of this life to write our story in eternity means that there are blobs and spills of accidents and missteps spattered here and there throughout our lifetimes. The beauty of God’s will is that there is a remedy for the mess we make of our ‘exercise books’ … the redemption brokered by the Son of God who was the Son of Man on the cross through the mighty Mercy of God that raised him again to New Life.  Will I take up my ‘blotting paper’, the love and mercy of God, and allow my Redeemer, Jesus Christ, to blot out my transgressions, my mis-takes? Along with all other men and women throughout the ages I ask for the merciful forgiveness of my Father through the propitiation of his Son:  “Blot out my transgressions, O my Redeemer!”
 
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.      (Psalm 51:10)
 
“The Christian life is a continuation and a completion of the life of Christ in us.”
St. John Eudes   
 
Soli ad gloriam Dei
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