I am a lip balm user. I prefer the chapstick cherry flavor brand and I also like Burt’s Bees lip balm. My least favorite is the green ‘mint’ flavor. In addition to me, an unnamed brother in our church is also seen frequently using lip balm. Did I mention frequently? I saw Jo... oops that was close, the brother use the stuff recently in church and it made me reflect on a gimmick lip balm I recently purchased. It is the “Wash Away Your Sin” lip balm.
I wish you could see the tube and packaging. The packaging on the front says: “Handy Salvation for a sinner on the go!” “Anointment Ointment” and the bottom front says it is “For liars, cheaters & wrong-doers”.
The back of the packaging: Wash-Away Your Sins lip balm: redemption in a stick. It moisturizes as it soothes guilty conscience. The warning: Re-apply balm frequently especially during prolonged sin exposure. And finally, the Directions for use:
1.engage stick 2. bow head 3. reflect upon wrong-doing 4. anoint thy lips with blessed balm 5. rub lips together to boost powerful sin-purging action and 6th, raise head and go forth cleansed from sin and ready to do it again.
I wish you could see the tube and packaging. The packaging on the front says: “Handy Salvation for a sinner on the go!” “Anointment Ointment” and the bottom front says it is “For liars, cheaters & wrong-doers”.
The back of the packaging: Wash-Away Your Sins lip balm: redemption in a stick. It moisturizes as it soothes guilty conscience. The warning: Re-apply balm frequently especially during prolonged sin exposure. And finally, the Directions for use:
1.engage stick 2. bow head 3. reflect upon wrong-doing 4. anoint thy lips with blessed balm 5. rub lips together to boost powerful sin-purging action and 6th, raise head and go forth cleansed from sin and ready to do it again.
No kidding! All this for a mere price of $6.00 per tube. What a bargain! Can you imagine? What a steal for six bucks! Six bucks can buy few things these days..One Starbucks Eggnog Latte Grande with change, Two happy meals (maybe), 2 hrs of garage parking at the airport, 1 ½ Diet-Coke at a Jags game! But for 6 bucks, you can buy a tube of forgiveness, repentance and redemption. All in one! Living in sin during the week and want some religion on for Sunday? Just slap some on!
You’re thinking one of 2 things: Where do I get this stuff or what craziness!! Sometimes we do, more indirectly and to a much lesser degree, have an attitude of such ingratitude...even as a child of God. We trample the grace of God. We forget the incomprehensible sacrifice of a Heavenly Father. To punish his one and only Son, who was not guilty? Not just punish Jesus, but to have him killed as atonement for my and your sin. Romans 5:8 (a verse in the Holy Bible) says “BUT God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
The willing SURRENDER of a Son to be a sacrifice because he knew that in and of ourselves, we will perish. It is a choice we must make to ask His forgiveness of our wickedness and turn from our sin. To ask Jesus to be our Lord (surrender to Him) and Savior from the wrath we deserve and will surely receive without a personal relationship with Him.
All this for a mere 6 bucks? Not hardly. Maybe we need to spend some time thanking Him for his forgiveness and His sacrifice. It wasn’t at a $6 dollar cost but at a cost far greater than we can imagine.
You’re thinking one of 2 things: Where do I get this stuff or what craziness!! Sometimes we do, more indirectly and to a much lesser degree, have an attitude of such ingratitude...even as a child of God. We trample the grace of God. We forget the incomprehensible sacrifice of a Heavenly Father. To punish his one and only Son, who was not guilty? Not just punish Jesus, but to have him killed as atonement for my and your sin. Romans 5:8 (a verse in the Holy Bible) says “BUT God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
The willing SURRENDER of a Son to be a sacrifice because he knew that in and of ourselves, we will perish. It is a choice we must make to ask His forgiveness of our wickedness and turn from our sin. To ask Jesus to be our Lord (surrender to Him) and Savior from the wrath we deserve and will surely receive without a personal relationship with Him.
All this for a mere 6 bucks? Not hardly. Maybe we need to spend some time thanking Him for his forgiveness and His sacrifice. It wasn’t at a $6 dollar cost but at a cost far greater than we can imagine.
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