Friday 23 November, 2007          subscribe | unsubscribe | respond | prayer | archive

 

Perfectly perfect

by Elizabeth Price

 

In a small shop, I found the perfect card for a special birthday.  The picture on the front was beautiful and the wording inside was appropriate.

 

I purchased it eagerly and signed it, but, before I slipped it into the envelope, casually re-read the message.  There was something wrong.

 

There was a printing error in its message, and anybody purchasing this card got damaged goods.  It should have been withdrawn from the market and trashed, if only to preserve the good name of the company.

 

No, I could not complain, could not give it over to be trashed.  If everything damaged was cast off and trashed, where would we be?  Are we not all damaged goods?

 

It reminded me of how the Lord treats His damaged goods.

 

“I am the Lord, for my own sake I wipe out

your transgressions and remember your sins no more.”

Isaiah 43:25

 

I took a bottle of correcting fluid and very tenderly wiped out the error!

 

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