In Too Deep

The school year is quickly coming to a close.  Students are getting a bit stir crazy and they have summer dreams in their heads.  And as the students are looking at their grades there are the inevitable visits to the teacher.  "I need to get my grade up, what can I do?"

Unfortunately, sometimes there just isn't much to be offered.  Several months of poor performance can't be corrected overnight.  Sometimes they just need to face the music and learn a lesson from it.

At the end of the baseball season, everyone is talking about the magic number.  The number of wins (or opposing team loses) needed to clinch first place.  The other side of the magic number is mathematical elimination.  Once you are mathematically eliminated, it doesn't matter if you win the rest and they lose the rest, there is just no catching them.  It is over.  The ship sailed and you weren't on board.  Some teams are eliminated quite early in the season and others run it out to the end, but the result is the same.  When you're out, you're out.

Many things in life are like that.  The debt is too deep; We've gone too far in the wrong direction; the damage is done; there is no going back.  Thankfully God doesn't work that way.  In Corinthians, Paul writes that love does not keep score.  No matter how far we sink.  No matter how low we go, we never get mathematically eliminated from returning to the grace of God.

Watch this clip from Pastor Lowell.

Our sins are never beyond the ability of God to cleans our soul and bring us back. Amen.