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By Abby Cabibbo
12/04/14
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“I just can’t do it anymore Carter, I’ve done too many bad things. He won’t want me, He can’t want me, I’m too dirty.” Sadie sobs on the other line. “Sadie don’t say that, He still wants you.” “No, Carter how could He. He can’t even see me through my sins, and they keep adding up by the day. I gotta go.” The phone cuts out. My head is hammering to the beat of my heart. I can’t believe she could think that. I pace around my room and look up at the ceiling as I ungracefully flop onto my bed. I turn my head and see I left my Bible open earlier. “This must be a joke. Really, Jesus? Is this what you want me to do?” I wait for an answer expecting nothing but when it comes, I jump. “Yes” says a playful voice inside my head. I hesitate before I ask my next question, “But, I think Sadie is a lost cause. I don’t think I can help her.” I hear an audible chuckle, it sounds like it’s all around me in my room, but judging how my kitten hasn’t jumped out of her fur -it’s probably in my head. “My Child, Sadie needs you to show her she has wrong thoughts about me.” Wrong thoughts? “What do you mean?” “People think that I don’t love them because they sin, but I gave my beloved Son -who knew no sin- to become sin, that they might become righteous through him. So tell Sadie I love her.”

Sadie,

After hours of reading the Bible, and praying I was led to talk to you again. I hope you get this email soon and don’t ignore it. Anyway, I was thinking a lot about what you said. About how you think God will not accept you, and how He won’t see you through your sins. Sadie, I am happy to tell you that you have never been more incorrect in your life. Think about this for a moment. If Jesus died on the Cross to take away our sins, and if you believe that -which I know you do- than wouldn’t it be extremely rude to think that God’s sacrifice of His beloved son, wasn’t enough to completely wash away all of your sins, past, present, and future? Jesus died for our sins, once and for all. In Romans 8:39 it says; There is NOTHING that can separate you from the love of Christ. I know where you’re coming from. It’s hard to live with things you know you’ve done wrong, but even though you might remember it for the rest of your life, just know that God doesn’t. It even says He doesn’t in Hebrews 8:12. The things you’ve done wrong are in no way distancing you from Jesus, He loves you and wants you to come to Him. Remember Luke 18:16, Jesus calls the little children unto himself. He wants you Sadie.

-Carter

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