My wife’s Pawpaw use to say “What makes a good carpenter, is being able to cover his own mistakes.” Pawpaw would know, he was an excellent carpenter.

Being a devout Christian, there’s something else Pawpaw knew — unlike carpentry, your sins are something you can’t cover yourself. You and I need the blood of Jesus for that. Matter of fact a lot of the deep messes we find ourselves in have to do us trying to cover up, drown out, numb, and run from our own sins. We can’t do it and we don’t have to. Jesus says “Come to me…I’ll give you rest” (Matthew 11:28)

What makes a good Carpenter is being able to cover his own mistakes. What makes a good Christian is knowing that he can’t. Bring it to Jesus, friend.