The Well Palmdale, CA

Okay...so many of you know that I used to spent my summers as a painter. I mostly did outside stuff, but I did a fair amount of indoor jobs, too. It was during that time that I developed a hatred of wallpaper. I never put it up, because it never looks quite right whenever it goes up....and I hated taking it down...which I had to do quite often. If you've ever had to do it...you know exactly what I'm talking about. In fact, growing up in the Niebling home, we had wallpaper words. My mom always told us not to say wallpaper words (these were the words that you said when you put up wallpaper...usually of the four-letter variety).

Well, the house that Sarah and I are moving into has a fair amount of the stuff all over the place. We spent last night over there for about 4 hours and got about 1/8 of one room done. I even made the remark to Sarah that I don't believe in a personal hell (thought I do believe in the real hell), but if there was a personal hell and I didn't have faith...I would be taking down wallpaper for eternity (and probably eating cauliflower while I was doing it).

As I was scraping away at that floral patterned misery, I thought a lot about sin. With the many prayers I gave to God that night for the paper to be taken away, it made me think about how I really don't have the power to take away my own sin. Our sin is like bad wallpaper. We can scrape and scrape away at it, but we really can't make a dent. We need someone to come in and take on our behalf. So next time you sin...think about wallpaper and how it sticks to you and never looks quite right. Christ desires to take it away from you...and that's a good thing.

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