APR 25
Missing the Target
One year my brother got a BB gun for Christmas. We spent the afternoon shooting at an archery target. When he decided to try it looking over his shoulder, he missed. He also missed the storehouse behind the target and the fence behind the storehouse. We had no idea where that BB went.
Our neighbor across the alley knew! He was at our back fence asking who’d shot the BB gun and who was going to pay for his sliding glass door. I disowned my brother, changed my last name and claimed to be a visitor from Canada. My father, more noble than I, said, “Yes, these are my children and I’ll pay for their mistakes.”
Christ says the same about you. He knows you miss the target. He knows you can’t pay for your mistakes. But he can.
And since he loves you—he did!
