Scars

 

Bob B. had a chair that he was repairing.  One leg had been shattered past the point of repairing.  So he asked me to make another leg on my wood lathe.  The leg appeared to be poplar, one of the softest of the hardwoods.  I had a pallet that I had torn apart that had runners that was poplar.  But it had nail holes in it with rust stains that went deep into the wood.  The chair leg was too long to avoid the nail holes.  I was able to cut below the nail holes on one side of the leg, but the other side was just too deep.  Bob would have to turn the new leg with nail holes towards the inside where they wouldn’t be as noticeable.  What a life-lesson!  Sin leaves scars in our lives.  Some are superficial, but others are deep and have deep stains.  Jesus will forgive and clean us up, but many of the scars from sin remain.  The old apostle John said in I John 1:7, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”  Jesus will forgive, but we must bear the scars as a reminder of former mistakes.  But, praise the Lord, we are forgiven!