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TFTD: “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” – 1 John 1:7-9

Have you ever been to camp? I have. I started going in elementary school and I have many memories of activities and people that I met during those couple of weeks. But one memory sticks out very vividly. We learned to play this game called Romans and Christians. All the campers were Christians and had to get to a rendezvous point to hear the word of God. The counselors were Romans and if they caught you then they took you to jail until someone came and broke you out or you repeated the theme verse for the day from memory. It was a really fun game except for one part. We played at night. It was dark and hard to see. You were running through the woods, not knowing what you were going to trip over or who is going to pop up around the next tree. While playing this game, I found two paths that it didn’t seem like anyone else had found. The first was to jail which snuck up behind the platform where everyone was held captive. The second was along the top of this hill/ridge and as I was following it I hit spider webs and a bunch of other things which made me realize that no one else had been following this trail. Needless to say, I found my way and was one of the first people to safety.

            How often is it so easy to get caught up in what we are doing? We get caught in this idea that it might just be easier to be a “Roman” because it takes work to find our way. We get caught in this darkness that is so hard to break because we fool ourselves and think that we are any better than the next guy. We don’t sin as much or do those sorts of things, but we all walk in that same darkness. We all are sinful and are stuck not knowing what sin we will fall into next or which one is going to jump out at us from around the next corner. Thankfully we have this light; this less traveled path to follow that can lead us in the right direction. We have a savior who forgives all our wrong doings and puts us back on the path when we fall off, and it doesn’t matter how many times that happens. We can run back to Him for forgiveness time and time again and He will continually forgive. No matter what the sin, He is our guiding light. He shows us the way to eternal safety. Our heavenly home!

“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”- Thomas Carlyle