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\u201cOld Graves\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The Digger<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Who are those that have no graves?\u00a0 Who loves to go around digging up others? Who loves to dig up what has died and been buried long ago? Who sees others\u2019 past sin and throws; stone at them? Who is without sin and loves to dig up others\u2019 buried past? Who won\u2019t let others bury and forget? Who are those that throw the biggest and heaviest stones, and do worse than the ones they are throwing at? Who keeps his shovel sharp for digging? Who searches old buried sin and digs as if looking for treasure? The digger!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why is the digger what he is? Because he has no sin, he says. The law says don\u2019t do this and don\u2019t do that and you do both. But not the digger, for he is perfect, in his way of thinking. I break no law he says to himself. It\u2019s my job because I am perfect and you are not. If you were perfect, I wouldn\u2019t have to throw stones at you. If all the people in the world were perfect we would be at peace. It\u2019s my job to make it perfect. If I expose all sin then you would feel guilt and you wouldn\u2019t do that anymore. Where does the digger get all his wisdom? Why, from the law of course, says Digger?<\/p>\n \u201cWho\u2019s law would that be, says Christian\u201d? \u201cWhy the great maker of all the earth\u201d, says Digger.\u201d What does his voice sound like\u201d? Ask Christian. \u201d Why, he is angry with all the people in the earth. He writes all their sins down in a book, so he can condemn them on the final Day of Judgment\u201d, say Digger. \u201cBut Jesus is not angry with the people of the world. He came to forgive and bury our past sins and remembers them no more\u201d, says Christian. \u201cNot so, says Digger, he will keep all your sins in a book\u201d. \u201cThe voice you are listening to is not the same one I hear, says Christian. The one I\u2019m listening too says,\u201d Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light\u201d. The one you are listening to is harsh, angry, and exposes past sin. The one I listen to says, I came to forgive sin and remember them no more\u201d.\u201d When I dig up this next grave I\u2019ll show you, says Digger\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI am like Jesus also, says Christian; I don\u2019t want to see past sins either. That\u2019s why we bury them, out of sight and we remember them no more\u201d. Digger responds sharply, \u201cBut all men need a heavy burden to make them do right, that\u2019s my job\u201d.\u201d The voice you hear sees your sin also Digger, if that is true. Digging up sin is your sin-burden; it must be very heavy\u201d, says Christian. \u201cIt is very hard and heavy and at times I don\u2019t think I can go on\u201d, says Digger. Christian responds,\u201d You have been listening to the wrong voice. You have been lead to believe by digging up old graves of past sin, you are helping people, but by doing so, all that past sin is coming back on your own head. It\u2019s weighting you down with an ever heavy burden. Your knees are about to buckle under the load\u201d. \u201cDo you mean that is why I feel so tired and dreary all the time,\u201d says Digger.\u201d Do you see now, says Christian, the more sin in others you expose, the worse you feel? Your digging was heaping sin on you. You were deceived by the voices you were listening to; it was not the voice of Jesus, the forgiver of sin\u201d. \u201cI am sorry\u201d, says Digger, \u201cWould the forgiver of sin forgive someone like me, for digging up everyone else\u2019s sins except my own\u201d? \u201cWhy certainly,\u201d says Christian. \u201cYour sins are no worse than any other persons. Forgiveness covers all sin. The forgiver is no respecter of persons\u201d.<\/p>\n David McClary<\/p>\n avoicefromthemountain.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cOld Graves\u201d The Digger \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Who are those that have no graves?\u00a0 Who loves to go around digging up others? Who loves to dig up what has died and been buried long ago? Who sees others\u2019 past sin and throws; stone at them? 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