One day as I was biking in my neighborhood, I noticed my neighbors had a new lawn ornament: a pig. Now this was no ordinary porker. He was made of cement, three and a half feet by two feet-a real eye catcher! They told me he was given to them as a wedding gift.
After about a year, I noticed that the pig was no longer in their yard. I asked about it, and they told me that he had been stolen.
For three years he was missing, and its place in their yard was bare. Then one day I saw the pig in their yard again!
I stopped to tell them how surprised I was to see it. This is the story they told: “We thought of having a pool built in our yard, and had a pool builder come over. He was showing us pictures of pools he had built, and by one of them, there was our pig!”
The people who stole him even tried to camouflage him by painting him a rusty brown, but he was unique and his true owners recognized him.
The Lord Jesus, the Son of God, said, “There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known” (Matt. 10:2626Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. (Matthew 10:26)). Think about that; think very seriously about that, and then make sure that your sins are not hidden, not covered, but washed white and clean.
“Wash you, make you clean....Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:16,1816Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; (Isaiah 1:16)
18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18)).
The pig is at home; my neighbors are happy, but what about those who stole the pig and then tried to cover the theft with a coat of paint? A police report had been filed, and they will have to stand trial with the evidence against them. If they had only remembered that “he that covereth his sins shall not prosper”!