Colossians 2:9-14
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fullness in him, who is the head of every ruler and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ; when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross.
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So there I was--we took Caleb to the doctor's office last Friday for his first visit. It was a regular check-up, and since he was about as new as a new patient could get, I had to fill out pages and pages of forms for him. One that was particularly easy was his medical history--at four days old, he didn't have much of one.
That started me thinking about our own history, and Don Kaller preached about this on Sunday--in Christ, each of our sin histories is as long as Caleb's medical history--nonexistent. We are clean slates, washed in the blood of Christ. Just as I had nothing to list on that page for Caleb, we have nothing to enter when it comes our sins--they have been forgiven, forgotten, destroyed in the death of Christ.
Now, just as Caleb will fall and scrape his knee, and probably catch a virus or two, we also will find a way to try and sully our clean slate. But Christ died before we had committed any of our sins, and he offers forgiveness for all of them. When are born anew in Christ--our record has been erased. Let us live as a forgiven people, willing to forgive others, grateful for what Christ has done.
Blessings
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