Yesterday morning as I was clocking in to work an analogy came to me about God and a timeclock. His forgiveness and grace and a timeclock adjustment sheet. To give some background, the day before I'd forgotten to clock out for lunch. I didn't realize it until I was getting ready to "clock-in" from lunch. Next to the timeclock is a paper timeclock adjustment sheet. Needless to say this is the sheet that we use to make adjustments to our time. So, I filled it out noting the correct time as well as the wrong time. I was grateful that I could go to the the timeclock sheet and get my time straightened out. But what if I didn't know about that sheet? What if I didn't know that if I messed up I could correct the action? If I hadn't known, I could have spent the whole day working and went the rest of the day and week without clocking in or out all because I'd made a mistake therefore missing out on several days pay.

That's how many of us are when it comes to sin and mistakes. We mess up and instead of looking to God and confessing and asking for forgiveness we walk around thinking there's nothing we can do. We blew it. The sad thing is that many people don't even know about Gods forgiveness and grace and so they never ask. Some people go the entire week not clocking in or out because they don't know how to correct the action. They stop going to church, fellowshipping with other believers all because they messed up and feel bad or unworthy. But God is like that timeclock adjustment sheet. He's always there right next to us where we need Him so that when the mistakes happen (and they will) we can go to God and ask for forgiveness. Then He covers us with His grace so that we don't go any further and miss out on the blessings He has for us.