From the Chaplain

In the last few days of school I have been busy trying to record people speaking for the Easter Service (because of COVID we cannot get together this year and so we are pre-recording it).  It makes it so much harder when you record it as you try and make it so much more perfect. If it was done on the day you would have had to have gone with whatever came out.  Today we recorded the Junior School students.  That was more difficult than I thought.  There is always someone who laughs or coughs, someone who drops something while talking, someone who says the wrong word and someone that just stares at the camera and will not speak.  It seemed that no matter how many times we practised with students, it was never going to be perfect. 

This makes me think of the TobyMac song which has the lyrics, ‘Cause there ain't no practice runs in life.  This is not a test (this is the real thing).’  It would be nice if we could have some practice runs of life. The number of times we have said something we wished we hadn’t, done something we wish we hadn’t and longed to go back in time to change it.  Jesus actually came down to earth so that we didn’t need to worry about our past and our mistakes.  

Hebrews 8:12 says, ‘For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.’ 

This tells us that if we ask for forgiveness and repent for all the wrong things that we have done, that God will not remember these sins.  Unlike God, we tend to bring up other people’s past sins when we are angry, but God actually promises to remember them no more and to blot them from memory.  Our sins are washed away by Jesus dying on the cross for us.  In life, we can keep practising to try and get things right, but in the end, we will never be as good as God.   

The bible tells us, ‘for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,’ Romans 3:23.   

Jesus has made a way so that we do not need to keep straining to be the best.  For those who chose to believe in him, he has wiped away their sin and made a way for them to be reconciled with the Father.  

Mrs Naomi Cooper | Chaplain