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April 19
Sunday


THE BEST ERASER

READ:
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Luke 16:19-31
I have blotted out,
like a thick cloud,
your transgressions.
__Isiah 44:22
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What is memory? What is this faculty that enables us to recall past feelings, sights, sounds, and experiences? By what process are events recorded, stored, and preserved in our brain to be brought back again and again? Much is still mystery.

We do know that memories can be blessings--full of comfort, assurance, and joy. Old age can be happy and satisfying if we have stored up memories of purity, faith, fellowship, and love. If a saint looks back on a life of Christian service and remembers the faithfulness of Him who promised: "I will never leave you nor forsake you" (Heb. 13:5), his or her sunset years can be the sweetest of all.

But memory can also be a curse and a tormentor. Many people as they approach the end of life would give all they possess to erase from their minds the past sins that haunt them. What can a person do who is plagued by such remembrances? just one thing. He can take them to the One who is able to forgive them and blot them out forever. He's the One who said, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more" (Heb. `0:17).

You may not be able to forget your past. But the Lord offers to blot out, "like a thick cloud, your transgressions" (Isa. 44:22).
__ M. R. De Haan, MD
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``````````````````The deep remorse that's in he soul``````````````
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```````````````````But Jesus sees the broken heart,```````````````
```````````````````And can its woes erase. __Bosch``````````````
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The best eraser
is honest confession to God.

****************Today's Bible Reading __ Luke 16:19-31***********

19 There was a certain rich
man who was clothed in
purple and fine linen and
fared sumptuously every
day. 20 But there was a
certain beggar named
Lazarus, full of sores, who
was laid at his gate,

21 desiring to be fed with
the crumbs which fell from
the rich man's table.
Moreover the dogs came
and licked his sores.

22 So it was that the beggar
died, and was carried by the
angels to Abraham's bosom.
The rich man also died and
was buried. 23 and being in
torment in hades, he lifted
up his eyes and saw
Abraham afar off, and
Lazarus in his bosom.

24 Then he cried and said,
"Father Abraham, have
mercy on me, and send
lazarus that he may dip the
tip of his finger in water
and cool my tongue; for I
am tormented in this
flame."

25 But Abraham said, "Son,
remember that in your
lifetime you received your
good things, and likewise
Lazarus evil things; but now
he is comforted and you are
tormented. 26 And besides
all this, between us and you
there is a great gulf fixed,
so that those who want to
pass from here to you
cannot, nor can those from
there pass to us."

27 Then he said, "I beg you
therefore, father, that you
would send him to my
father's house, 28 for I have
five brothers, that he may
testify to them, lest they
also come to this place of
torment."

29 Abraham said to him,
"They have Moses and the
prophets; let them hear
them."

30 And he said, "No, father
Abraham; but if one goes to
them from the dead, they
will repent."

31 But he said to him, "If
they do not hear Moses and
the prophets, neither will
they be persuaded though
one rise from the dead."