Friday at school, Rachel noticed a boy in the classroom who was frantically rubbing his hands together. He looked worried. She walked over to him and asked what was wrong. He looked up at her with bubble gum on his face and hands.
“What happened?” she asked. “I don’t know,” he responded. He said there must have been gum under the desk or on the table or somewhere. It was clear that he had been chewing bubble gum (against the rules) and had blown a bubble that popped. The evidence was all over his face. Gum under the desk? Rachel looked later and there was no evidence of gum anywhere.
She told him to go to the bathroom – the one with paper towels rather than an air dryer – and wash his hands and his face. Bless his heart, he thought he was in hot water! More on that tomorrow…
The apostle Paul wrote: “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). We’ve all had “gum” (sin) on our face at one time or another. The sad thing is that some people never realize it. Even some Christians never realize that – from time to time – they have gum on their face. “Not me,” they act.
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Like the Pharisee who prayed so everyone could hear him: “God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get” (Luke 18:11-12). The Pharisee did not know that he had gum on his face. But it was obvious to all around him.
We must recognize that we have sinned or – if we’re not Christians – that we are sinners. Just as an addict never gets treatment until he recognizes he has a problem, we will never get cleansed until we recognize we have gum on our face.
Then you can get it cleansed through the blood of Christ – “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace” (Ephesians 1:7).
–Paul Holland
