Stolen Candy
Theme of the Week: Doing a 180
Steve Farrar
Thursday, March 6, 2008
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Key Bible Verse: "Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired man" Luke 15:18-19.Bonus Reading:Luke 15:17-24
A second-grade teacher suspected that one of her students had stolen candy from her desk. When she asked him, he denied it. Over the weekend, however, his conscience became hard to live with. On Monday he came up to her desk. "I took the candy," he said. "I'm sorry for lying to you. Will you forgive me?"
"Yes, I will," she assured him.
Remembering what his teacher had taught about thorough confession, the boy continued, "I'm prepared to accept the consequences."
"What do you think they should be?"
"Well, I could've bought the candy for 50 cents; how about if I give you 75 cents?"
He then recalled the "double-trouble principle" she'd taught him (when you make a bad choice and then lie about it or blame others, you deserve two consequences). So he added, "I think I should give you another quarter because I lied to you."
The next morning, the second-grader handed his teacher one dollar from his own piggy bank. He walked away with a clear conscience, a valuable lesson, and the knowledge that nothing stood between him and his teacher.
—Steve Farrar in Point Man
My Response: I'll recall a time when I felt God's complete forgiveness and thank him for being thorough.
Thought to Apply: In confession we open our lives to the healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are.—Louis Cassels
Adapted from Point Man (Multnomah, 1990) by permission.
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