In the hills of West Virginia there are several very deep wells. In order to get water, wells sometimes have to be drilled down 400 feet. One day when I was a boy I found a very large stone lying near the top of a well on a nearby farm. Just for the fun of it I decided to drop that stone down into the well. I pushed and tugged at it until I got it to the edge of the well, and then down it went!
Some years later when I was a young man I had to go down that same well to clean it out. There at the bottom I found that very stone I had dropped in. Now I had to get it out of the well. I didn’t know how to begin. I thought if I put it on the bucket for the workers above to lift up, it might slip off the bucket and fall back down on me. I couldn’t leave it at the bottom of the well. So I decided to put the stone in the bucket, stand on it, and have both of us lifted out of the well at the same time.
The stone that had been buried so long was now seen at the top.
The same thing is true about sin. Your sin committed and buried so long ago must come out in the open. And if you die in your sins you will be raised in them, and they will come up into the light of God’s divine presence in that judgment day. Do not bury or cover over your sins any longer, but uncover them now and confess them to God. Forgiveness is now offered, full and free. God is ready to forgive and wash away your sins. “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” Proverbs 28:1313He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. (Proverbs 28:13).
ML-10/19/1980