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Today's Devotional - August 12
Sprayed With Foolishness
Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
Isaiah 1:18
Recommended Reading
Isaiah 1:16-20
Earlier this year, a TSA agent at JFK International Airport in New York found a device he thought was a laser pointer, and he started playing around with it. It was actually a canister of pepper spray, which he accidentally discharged on fellow workers. Six TSA employees were taken to the hospital, and security checks were halted for fifteen minutes due to the incident.
Perhaps no great harm was done, but this story illustrates how easily we can hurt others by just "playing around." A moment of carelessness, a wrong action, a foolish decision, a rash word, a yielding to temptation—and the results can be far worse than a dose of pepper spray. They can inflict lifelong damage.
The effects of foolishness may be irreversible, painful, and deep; but God can restore any heart, forgive any sin, and turn all things for good. If you've hurt someone through past foolishness or if your heart is heavy with the weight of bygone failures, place your sin under the blood of Christ. He can give you total forgiveness and give you a new start today.
Though your sins should be double-dyed as crimson was, though you have sinned again and again and again… yet He is able to cleanse you.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Read-thru-the-Bible
Jeremiah 28-30
