Introducing our Spring Gathering Bible Study 

“God’s Eraser Never Wears Out”

Our Bible Study for Spring Gathering will be based on Psalm 51: 9-12  “Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in my a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.”

Do you have a drawer, a box, or some other place where you throw all your “extra”pencils. There are yellow, red, black and white pencils. There are many different shapes, sizes, and colors of pencils but there is one thing that all of those pencils in my pencil drawer usually have in common–the eraser is worn off of every one of them. Do you know what that tells me? It tells me that I make a lot of mistakes. When I make a mistake, I erase it and start over, and over again, until I get it right! I don’t know why I keep those pencils, because as many mistakes as I make, a pencil without an eraser is pretty useless. Those pencils remind me of people. People come in all different sizes, shapes and colors too, but we all have one thing in common, we all make mistakes! We make a lot of mistakes–well, at least I do! That is why God sent Jesus to die on the cross–to erase our mistakes. When we do something wrong, we can ask God to forgive us and because of Jesus, He will erase (forgive) our mistakes and we can start over again, and again, and again. Unlike those pencil erasers, God’s eraser never wears out!

In our Spring Gathering Bible Study, we looked at the topic of forgiveness–God’s forgiveness for us, our forgiveness of others; our forgiveness for ourselves; and how many times are we to forgive.