Trashcans come in many different varieties. Some are small, some are large, and some are in between. Some have lids and others don't. Some have pink floral roses decorated on the side, some have animals decorated on the side, and others are just plain white or black. No matter if the trashcan is small, has a lid, or is plain white, it's still a trashcan. You can't change what it contains on the inside by making the outside more attractive. There's still garbage inside, even if it's the prettiest trashcan design in the world.
Sometimes, we dump our sin in a trashcan and try to disguise our sins. Maybe if we lied about something, we try to downplay the lying..."It wasn't that bad, I had a good reason to do it, after all". Whatever the sin is, often we try to downplay it into something smaller, something prettier, something more attractive. The truth is, no matter how much we try to pretty up our sin, it's still a sin. It's still nasty. It's still unattractive. And, it still needs to be taken care of. It needs to be taken out and thrown away. We don't leave garbage in trashcans to rot away, we have to empty the trashcan or it simply becomes too much to live with. Imagine living with a trashcan overflowing of trash, flooding into all rooms of our house. Similarly, we need to 'take out' our sins. We need to get rid of them. We can't keep living with them. No matter how much we try to disguise it on the outside, it's still ugly on the inside.
The point? Romans 6:23 says, "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." The wages for all those nasty sins that we try to disguise is death. But instead, Jesus took our sins from us. He knew the trashcan was too heavy for us to lift, too filled with all of our mistakes, sins, and sadness. So He lifted that weight from us. He took our sins. And, in placement? He offers us a free gift. Eternal life with Him. All we have to do is accept it. Give the trashcan load of ugliness in your life to Jesus, let Him carry it, He already took care of that, all of that, on the cross. And instead, walk towards Him, with no burden weighing you down.
Kayla Joy
