The Sin Bin

   Its been a long time since posting something new, so here it comes.
  

   I've got a question that I know that everyone can answer- Have you ever been sent to the sin bin?

I'm pretty sure everyone a answered YES.

   I know from playing the game, even in Dallas; thing aren't fair when it comes to refs, usually... Everyone down in Texas  says that some refs actually ref soccer because , of how strict they can be. But the cold truth that I believe is its because of how team act and react.
   there's a same type of soccer refs in the Bible.

   In John 8 chapter 1 through 11 in the New Living Translation,"Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?” They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!”  Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust. When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?” “No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”

So why did Jesus let her go? If I was a referee, I would call a penalty, but Jesus didn't. This shows me that Jesus is full of grace and also slow to anger.
   Just like in a game, if you trip a player once or accidentally run into a player then the ref usually won't call anything. Now, he would ask you to not do it again and play the game as it should be, but most players don't really listen or believe that they are being accused for something they haven't done. But just like John wrote to Christians.

    1 John 1:9 NLT "But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness."

    The truth is, no matter how perfect we are playing hockey or playing the game of life you can say, all of us have sined one way or another. Some may be so little or something very major, but like refs, they call the penalty. Now we can't change the penalty but what we do after the penalty can be beneficial to the team and yourself. So next time you when you draw penalty, or sin, just remember to be like the woman and confessed to it no matter if someone seen it or not.