CAUTION WET PAINT

Today i had an incident at degage that inspired me to blog. i was assigned the task of painting handrails along the stairs in the east side of the building. i was given thinner and paint and a brush. i diligently started my work, and as i was working people were commenting to me and others, "oh thats wet, better not touch it!", so i just smiled an kept going. One gentleman walked up the stairs, looked at me, and then brushed up along my wet paint! He looked at me infuriated and told me "Why dont you have signs up! people are gonna touch this!"......ummmm......yeah.... anyways, i looked at him and said "well im sorry but i don't have any signs, but you looked right at me and touched the paint....... what do you want me to do?". He said to me, "put up some signs! I'm gonna see you outside and beat you boy" i just asked him "Is that so, you promise?" and continued to paint, finishing my job. Afterwards i got a huge sign. While i was driving home i started thinking about sin and depravity of man... and i started thinking about the stupid things we do as people. Sin = paint. That was my thought. We see the paint and we see that things are being painted. Sometimes we see the paint and avoid it, but other times we see the paint and touch it anyways. Why? Why do we touch it? Its like we think we are special and we can play around with the paint and not get dirty. We assume that the paint is dry and no one will see the flaws it will leave on us if we touch it, but when you play with paint you will always get dirty. Sometimes we get lucky and the paint isn't wet, but God still knows we touched it. Other times we touch it and it gets us covered, making us look foolish and everybody can see the stain. It is then that we have to make a decision. Do we act proud and get angry, trying to shift the blame to the painter? (The painter doesn't make you paint or paint on you, he just makes it appealing. It is always your own fault.) Or do we  humble ourselves and ask for forgiveness from God, and tell others that we made a mistake so they can help us and get our paint cleaned off?
Psalm 32:5
"Then I acknowledged my sin to you 
   and did not cover up my iniquity. 
I said, “I will confess 
   my transgressions to the LORD.” 
And you forgave 
   the guilt of my sin."
  Had this man simply asked me to get the paint off of him i would have gladly opened my can of "thinner" and wiped it away, but instead he chose to be proud and blame and threaten me. i had no desire whatsoever to wipe away his paint. i think God is the same way. When we decide to "finger paint" and make a glorious mess of ourselves we just see it as having fun and presume it as harmless, but either way we are dirty. We continue to do it unceasingly without remorse in our pride and God is ashamed of us. He has no desire to clean us up. But if we say "Daddy, i have made a mess and i finger painted all over your walls im sorry. i don't know what came over me" he has compassion because we are his children and he treasures our sincerity and humbleness. He says to us " I know you have made a mess, and I still love you. Let me help you clean this up; I will make you just like brand new" "Just stop finger painting on daddy's walls. Child, I love you"
We need to turn from our sin and tell God that we are sorry and he will wash us clean. Also we need to recognize that our sin will always make us dirty, and God will always know, even if other people don't. Love God, hate sin, and learn to avoid it at all costs, and no matter how pretty it looks don't touch it. It will always make you dirty.
 "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9.
God Bless