Erased
Story★★★★There is a story that one night Martin Luther went to sleep troubled about his sin. In a dream he saw an angel standing by a blackboard, and at the top of the board was Luther’s name. The angel, chalk in hand, was listing all of Luther’s sins, and the list filled the blackboard. Luther shuddered in despair, feeling that his sins were so many that he could never be forgiven.
But suddenly in his dream he saw a pierced hand writing above the list these words: “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” As Luther gazed in amazement, the blood flowed from the wounded hand and washed the record clean. 1 1 W. Hershel Ford, Simple Sermons for Saints and Sinners (Grand Rapids, Ml: Baker Book House, 1954), 9.
The point
Martin Luther dreams of an angel filling a blackboard with his sins, until a pierced hand writes over the list that the blood of Christ cleanses from all sin, and the record is washed away.