My wife Kimberly carved out a precious two hours of her day to cut the boys' hair.

Four year old Atalie liked what she saw, grabbed a pair of hair-cutting scissors, held up a hefty chunk of the mane attached to her new toy pony's head, and cut it off. If Mama could do it to the boys, what could be more harmless than doing it to an innocent pony doll?

Atalie did not understand that her action was irreversable. It could not be fixed. But no sin, no matter how gross or how selfish, is irreparable. God can not only take away your sin but use it for His awesome purposes! 

If He could use the Jacob the heel-grabbing manipulator, Perez the product of Judah sleeping with his daughter-in-law whom he thought was a prostitute, Ruth the foreigner from a nation who worshipped a god whom they'd sacrifice babies to, Solomon the son of Bathsheba whose name recalls David's adultery and murder, Uzziah the humble king who turned proud and ended up living in a quarantined shack the rest of his life because of his leprosy, Mary the girl who claimed she got pregnant by the Holy Ghost—a claim in her day that would have left her branded as a blasphemer and a whore  who deserved to be stoned—if God could use this motley, sin-stained, very messed up line of people to produce Jesus Christ the Messiah, then He will have no problem forgiving your sin and ultimately turning it to your benefit and good. All one has to do is turn to Him, believe in His Son, and accept God's grace. 

"And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose" (Rom 8:28).