Tetris

            I love the game Tetris. It was one of the only games on my mom’s phone, so I would play it over and over and over. I actually got pretty good. I finally got an “okay” instead of a “you stink and should go back to kindergarten to learn your shapes!” If any of you are thinking, “Wow, she got an okay! All I’ve ever gotten is an ‘I’m sorry, we cannot tell you your score at this time. My super-computer doesn’t count that low.’” you should know that I am free to sign autographs any day of the week.

            Even though it is a fun game, it doesn’t make any sense. The point is to catch the shapes that the computer is dropping in such a way that they form a line and disappear.

            It is kind of like our lives. We are the computer, the shapes are our sins, and God is catching our sin to make it disappear. He is wiping our sins out of existence if we drop them and ask Him to wipe them away.

What if the computer decided to keep all of the shapes for itself? If the shapes weren’t just dots on a screen, but took up actual space, the computer would be bogged down with all of the shapes that it had stored. The computer would eventually crash because all of its space was used for storing the shapes.

What if we decided to keep all of our sin? If we said, “God, I can take care of it. I’m big and smart enough!” and kept all of the sin stored up inside, our conscience would bug us to death about every little thing we had done. Finally, when our sins became too great for us to hold on to, we would either crash or cry out to God for help.

God is standing with His arms open wide asking us to give Him our sins and troubles. He is ready to take our sins and make them disappear.

I could easily say, “I don’t feel like catching shapes today, so I’ll read a book instead.” God could easily say, “These humans don’t get it! I’m ready to take their sins, but they just hold on to them and call them ‘My precious’ over and over again. I’m done.” And He could easily walk away and leave us to suffer. But, thankfully, He doesn’t. He stands there and coaxes us to give Him all of the rotten things in our lives.

I only have the Demo version of Tetris on my mom’s phone. We didn’t think that is was worth the dollar to own it. However, God doesn’t just own the Demo version. He bought the full version with His blood! He paid a lot to catch our sins for us. We should let Him.

Every one of us has some sin that we’re holding on to. Let it go. Every one of us is stupid enough to think that we should keep our sins to ourselves and not allow God to dispose of them. All we need to do is ask. He is standing there waiting for us to drop our sins and give Him control of our lives.

Anyone want to play Tetris with me?