A Blessing to See Your Sin as Jesus Does

I bless you today

To see the sins of your past

As Jesus sees does –

Through a lens of truth and mercy.

What great regret

Or gnawing condemnation

Still haunts and still can bring

Your soul down to the dirt

Like the woman caught in waywardness

Awaiting the stoning from her accusers?

If you know what that

That dust tastes like

And what that hellish shame feels like,

May you have the eyes of Jesus

At least for a moment

To see your sin as He does—

Real, but not final,

Costly, but not condemning.

Watch the scene through His eyes,

See Him stoop next to you,

And see Him rebuke the accusers with a word etched in the soil,

And listen for the thud, thud, thud

Of rocks dropping to the earth

And hear His words for all their blessed power:

“Go and sin no more.”

He has seen your sin,

But through His own shed blood,

He sees it no more.

He sees it all

And, then, He sees it not at all.