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Isaiah 64:6
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top scratching! You need to put cream on your spots again!” Emma nagged her friend Jia Xi. Jia Xi frowned. His eczema was flaring up again. His arms and legs were covered in dry and itchy rashes. “Teacher Mabel,” Jia Xi said, while applying cream on his spots. “I can’t memorize Isaiah 64:6 because I don’t understand it. What does ‘All of us have become like one who is unclean’ mean?” “It means that every one of us is unwell,” Teacher Mabel replied. “What?” Emma interrupted, shocked. “I’m not unwell! Jia Xi has eczema. But I’m perfectly well.” Teacher Mabel replied: “We are all spiritually unwell, because we all sin, which means we all disobey God. Sin is a sickness.” “Then, are we going to shrivel up like a leaf?” Jia Xi asked solemnly, pointing at the words of Isaiah 64:6, which were written on the whiteboard.
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Pra yer “We will, if our sickness is left untreated. When we are physically unwell, we take medicine to heal. Likewise, when we are ‘unwell
Lord , th Jesus ank You fo , who and is th r e be only st me the s ickne dicine fo r ss of sin.
with sin’, there’s medicine that will take away our sins: Jesus,” Teacher Mabel explained. “Jesus is God’s Son and when He died on the cross, He took away our sin. When we accept Him as our Lord and Saviour, Jesus heals us. He takes away our sin.”
“Just like this cream removes eczema spots?” Emma asked. “Even better,” Teacher Mabel replied. “This cream needs to be applied repeatedly. But Jesus takes away our sin immediately, and we are clean indeed. Jesus is the best and only medicine for the sickness of sin!”—PL
tion Reflec vior? He us as your Lord and Sa Have you accepted Jes n save e anently. No one els ca heals us of our sin perm Jesus of ” Trust in the “medicine us, not even ourselves. today.
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