219,000

This morning, my family went to Forest City Community Church. I don't think any of us had been before, but Alison had gone to the youth group there for a bit during high school. The one thing that really stood out to me from the service was when the pastor talked about 'sin counters'. Obviously these don't exist, but he made the following point: let's say that we sin 10 times a day. That's a generous number, but we'll be nice. That means 3650 sins a year. 36500 sins a decade. Now lets say you live to be 70. We'll take off the first 10 years of your life because you aren't really aware of things quite yet. That leaves you with 219,000. When you die, you'll be standing before Jesus and God with 219,000 sins. And that just hit me a bit. Thankfully, God doesn't keep record of that. But the idea of sinning so much (and 219,000 is a generous number) got me.