Monday, January 11, 1999
Monday, January 11, 1999
Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. (Psalms
32:1
NRSV)
"Each time I went to the front and rededicated my life," Nelson wrote, "I wanted to leave my sins
with God and walk away clean. I felt I shouldn't have gotten off so easy. I mean, the Church had
let me off, but I hadn't let myself off."
Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is ourselves. We are set free in Christ. We are forgiven
through Christ. Believe it!
Ronald Newhouse, Texas, USA
Country Western singer, Willie Nelson recalls his boyhood days attending a small Methodist
church. "I was one of those kids who kept going down front when the preacher called for
converts at the end of each sermon," Nelson wrote. "I'd see somebody next to me start to the
front, and well, there I'd go again. I joined the Methodist Church at least thirty times when I was a
kid. Every time I'd do something bad, I'd go join the church again. I'd walk down to the front and
renounce my sins and ask Jesus Christ to come into my heart. And all of a sudden I had a new
slate in the eyes of the Church. Then I'd slip off and smoke a long strip of cedar bark rolled up in a
newspaper--and suddenly I was back facing the fiery furnace again."
Prayer: Dear Jesus, I'm honored that you came so that I may be forgiven. May I honor
you in this day. Amen.
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