Spring is in the air- and with that, so is the pollen.
It seems as though you go to bed one evening and everything is clean and shiny, and the next morning you wake up to a mask of yellow blanketing your white Ford Explorer. Pollen. Pollen is the worst part about spring. It is the cause of allergies, frustration and uncleanliness. No matter how many times you wash your car one week, it will be covered with yellow powder the next. Pollen. Is there any way to get rid of it?
Recently I went to a night of worship and prayer on campus at UNCW, it was here that the idea of pollen was explained to me in a different way. The speaker illustrated how Spring is such a marvelous time of year, full of new life and new perspectives. Pollen can be signifying of our walks and the sin that surrounds our lives. One day we are clean.. and the next we feel blanketed by the uncleanliness of our actions or thoughts. Sin, much like pollen, seems suffocating; it is hard to breathe through. It is hard to wake up in the morning and see anything other than our yellow cars, and crusty lives. How are we to escape sin if it seems to blanket our everyday? The speaker went on to illustrate that all though our sin seems blanketing and suffocating, it is washed away with the rain. Jesus, the son of God, sacrificed his life in order to save our own. It was then, that the true "rain shower" of goodness happened. The yellow, suffocating, hard to breathe through sin that envelopes our every thought and prayer, is restored and refreshed just as the rain washes away the pollen.
Yes, we still sin. Yes, one day we feel clean and worthy, and the next dirty and unkept. But just as the Spring rain washes away the pollen, so does the Lord wash away our sin.
Isn't it wonderful that we no longer need to live a life enveloped by pollen, but instead have the freedom to enjoy and dance in the rain of God's forgiveness?
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