As I've mentioned before, Terry's dad brought the kids pumpkins for halloween. We decided to carve them up today. Noah didn't want to touch the insides of the pumpkin and so he tried a rubber glove. It was too big on his hand to do any good though.
He was way freaked out by the guts.
Terry shared with the kids how carving a pumpkin is a lot like salvation.
Just like the inside of a pumpkin is icky and gross, so the inside of every human is sinful. And even worse than that, we are born sinful. So even if we could somehow be "good enough" to get to God, to heaven, we'd still be out of luck b/c we are born sinful - sinners. I never had to teach my kids to be naughty. It comes naturally. We are sinners and we sin.
So Jesus comes as a real man. By living a perfect life and dying as an innocent man for all of human kind, God made him who knew no sin (Jesus) to be sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God, in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus took all of the punishment that we deserved. But only if we choose to believe that Jesus did all of this and trust Him to save us through what He did, can we be saved from being separated from God. And if we do believe God and rely on Jesus for our salvation, Jesus cleans us out just like Terry cleaned out the pumpkin.
Jesus makes us clean. He makes us saints, holy and righteous in Christ, and we are no longer sinners.
And then we get an unhappy face? Well, no. That's just what Noah wanted his pumpkin to look like.
Jesus cleans us up, makes us new and puts His light inside of us.
His light shines brighter in the dark.
Evie wanted her pumpkin to have ears.
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