Making our marks

Yesterday’s sermon at church used a pencil as an analogy for our Christian life. A pencil without a lead is pointless; leading our lives without God is also pointless. We use pencils to write and draw, to make our mark on things, and similarly in our Christian lives we should be looking to make our marks on the world by sharing God’s message. The pencils used to illustrate the sermon had rubbers on the end which were used to symbolise how God’s grace means that we can erase our mistakes and start over again. It was quite an interesting sermon.