We know what an eraser does. It removes one thing to replace it with another.
A child in a classroom gets angry at her teacher. She scribbles, “I hate you,” on her homework paper. The next morning, the same teacher greets her and gives her a warm hug. The child’s outlook is changed, and she uses an eraser to remove the offending word. Her paper now says, “I love you.”
What was a hot arrow of hatred is now a fond expression of affection.
A photographer wants to enter a landscape photo into a contest. The digital shot is beautifully executed, a scene of mountains and lakes, with just a hint of clouds across the horizon. Even the rays of the sun shooting brilliant streaks down one edge only add to the ambience. Upon closer inspection, the photographer notices an airplane in the sky. The photo is ruined!
Not so. He takes his computer’s eraser tool, removes the airplane, and fills in the empty place in the sky. Now the picture is perfect in every way.
We have a spiritual eraser, too. Leviticus 6:6-7 describes a ram without blemish that shall bring forgiveness for anything a man has done.
Anything.
How about that? We steal to support our drug habit? Forgiven. We lie to cover our misdeeds? Forgiven. We let greed become our driving focus? Forgiven.
The eraser in Leviticus is part of Mosaic Law, but the example we’re given is a forerunner of Jesus, a man without blemish, who died for our sins. Jesus is our eraser, come to remove every bad thing we’ve done, as if they never happened. All we have to do is come to him with a desire to be changed and to follow him.
Then the unbelievable happens. Our outlook is changed, hate turns to love, and every bad mark is removed from the sky. God has taken his eraser tool, created a blank slate, and filled in our world with his love.
His touch has transformed our lives.
When we come to God, what he does for us is truly amazing, in every way.
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