Heard on the radio today: When I was in college, I typed on an old typewriter. When I made mistakes, I used a bottle of white-out to cover my mistakes, but the mistakes were still there. In graduate school, I used my IBM Selectric lift-off tape to remove my mistakes, but the impressions of the mistakes were still there. When I completed my doctorate, I used a computer and could delete my mistakes. The mistakes were deleted and actually totally removed from my hard drive – they were completely gone! On the Day of Atonement, the Old Testament Jews had their sins covered for one more year. We may ask forgiveness for our sins, but the scars will still remain. But only God can totally remove our sins and cast them into the depths of the sea, to be remembered no more!
