JULY 31, 2012
Recall Notice
Read: Acts 3:13-21
Repent . .
. that your sins may be blotted out. —Acts 3:19
In 2010, auto manufacturers recalled a staggering 20 million cars
in the US for various defects. The thought of such a large number of
defective
cars on the road is startling enough. But what is more
disturbing is the apathy
of some owners. In one instance, the executive
director of the Center for Auto
Safety warned owners, “It’s a free repair.
Get it done. It may save your life.”
Yet, despite the risk to their own
lives, 30 percent never responded.
Likewise, many ignore God’s “recall notice” to the entire human
race.
Unlike a defect found in automobiles, the moral defect of the human race
is not the Maker’s fault. He made everything “very good” (Gen. 1:31),
but
people’s sin ruined it. God’s offer to us is “repent . . . that your sins
may
be blotted out” (Acts 3:19).
God offers not just a free repair of the human heart but a
replacement
of it (Ezek. 36:26; 2 Cor. 5:17). Though the offer costs us nothing
(Eph. 2:8-9), it cost God the life of His only Son Jesus Christ. “[Jesus]
bore
our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins,
might live
for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed”
(1 Peter 2:24).
Don’t ignore the Lord’s call. The free and permanent remedy
offered
by God for your spiritual defect will save your life!
The heart of man is stained by sin,
From Adam’s fall this has been true;
Yet God in Christ can make a change—
Through faith in Him we are made new. —Fitzhugh
For a new start, ask God for a new heart.
Source:
Our Daily Bread 2012
