Christian Devotional-Stories and Bible verses about the presence of God in our lives

No Use to Anybody

“A full wastebasket’s no use to anybody!”

No use to anybody

He looks at what I’m doing and chuckles.

“No use to anybody, ” he says as he walks away…

I’m getting rid of paper…

Paper generated by the computer that is supposed to lead us into a paperless world.

Paper that fills filing cabinets…

Paper rising in small mounds on my desk…

Spilling onto the floor.

Paper I don’t need anymore…

But cling to anyway.

The wastebasket is full…

The shredder has reached its capacity…

I dump its contents into a plastic bag…

shredded

Annoying little bits of paper fill the air.

“A full wastebasket’s no use to anybody …”

I chuckle as I realize the truth of his statement…

And think…

Maybe a wastebasket isn’t the only thing that’s useless when it’s full…

Could a full soul be just as useless?

A soul filled with memories of sins from which God has already separated us…

As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us  Psalm 103:12

Sins to which God calls us to die…

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.  Romans 6:4

Sins which God Himself does not remember…

“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.  Isaiah 43:25

 Sins He has forgotten so that we may become new in His grace…

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.  2 Corinthians 5:17

And as a new being in Christ, say with Paul…

…forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14

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