It is NOT trash

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The olD life is gone the new life has begun!

Open the floodgates of heaven let it rain. - Let it rain Jesus culture

I have a Souvenir from camp. It is a crushed plastic bottle. On the label my name is crossed out in red marker replaced by the name of Jesus. Now someone who does not know this might ask me why am I wearing trash on my lanyard. I would reply this is not a piece of trash. This is a symbol. A symbol holding multiple meanings. I am the bottle. I have emptied out my old self. I have crushed the past underneath my feet. I will come to God daily empty so that he will fill me and make me whole again. The reason why my name is crossed out and Jesus name is shone is because that is who God sees.

Here is an object lesson for you. I got this from my Pastor PK. Anyway you have three bottles. One that is filled to the top with dirt. One that has a minuscule amount of sand in it and one that is pure. Then you have two people one person has been good all her life but messes up just once. The other person has messed up all his life and turned into a mass murderer. Who owns which bottle? One might say that the girl has the cleaner bottle while the dude has the dirty bottle. Here is the catch. In God's eyes sin is sin. It won't matter what you've done God will see you as this dark bottle. Then there's another catch when you accept Jesus into your life as your lord and savior God sees his son a pure sacrifice once and for all. So that is what the bottle means.


Acts 2:21 anyone who calls on the name of the lord will be saved