A Lesson Learned: by Robin Thomas
I don’t know about you but I am an Arachnophobe. I hate spiders.
I took a Pastoral counseling class at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California, with Dr. David Augsburger.
He was guiding us through a visual meditation. I am very visual. He asked us to picture walking through a place with spider webs…..Need I say more? All I could see in my head was that scene from Indiana Jones where he goes into the cave with all the giant spiders on the web, and I actually gasped out loud in class.
Yep, you got it, I freaked myself out with my own visual picture of a spider web in a class of 100 students.
‘That was not embarrassing’ she said, dripping with sarcasm.
Have you ever noticed how you can walk out the door in the morning to a beautiful day and run into the handiwork of an industrious little spider and become a jumping, leaping lunatic? How can we even feel a tiny spider web? But we can.
Tiny little threads often not even visible, but we can feel them.
And they hang on. I tried to get some spider eggs off a toy truck the other day. I blasted it with water from the hose and they were still there. I had to wipe them away.
Sin is kind of like that. A little white lie here, a little bit of permanent borrowing there. It’s all tiny things, but we feel the effects. It weighs down our spirits because it’s a burden to carry. Unconfessed sin can weigh you down and minimize your joy.
In Psalm 32: 1-3 David wrote:
“Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is put out of sight! Yes, what joy for those whose record the Lord has cleared of guilt, whose lives are lived in complete honesty! When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long.” (NLT)
Sometimes sin accumulates like a den of giant spiders, but the good news is that when we confess that sin we are forgiven and it is wiped away. Jesus gave us that ability.
“Create in me a clean heart O God, and renew a right spirit within me.” Psalm 51:10
Feeling a little off? Burdened down? Confess your sin to God.
Don’t know what that might be then confess that you don’t know what to confess.
And when you are done sing a song of worship and your spirit will be lighter.
Did you know that same dreaded spider web looks beautiful after a rain?
Have you ever seen one? I like to call them “Spider Pearls.”
God makes something beautiful after the rain of forgiveness. God can take what the enemy meant for evil and turn it for good.
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