A poor native woman who lived by the sea went to the missionary one day carrying a pail of sand.
“My sins are like this pail of sand,” she said. “How can a sinner like me be saved?”
“Where did you get the sand?” he asked her.
“At the beach.”
“Then take the sand back to the beach,” he told her, “and make a pile of it. Shovel the sand as high as you can. Then leave it and see what happens when the tide comes in.”
“Oh, sir,” she exclaimed, “when the tide comes in the pile of sand will all disappear!”
“Exactly!” he replied. “And that is just what will happen to all your sins if you will ask the Lord Jesus to wash them all away. God will forgive them and remember them no more. They will be gone from His presence forever.”
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