During the summertime when you go to the beach, the lake or the pool, you see a lot of tattoos. It’s like people have been run through the silkscreen press before they can be let near the water. Now I might not prefer tattoos for myself (though some are quite artistic), but it’s pretty clear to everybody at the beach that there are those who have them and those who don’t.
No Curse Tattoo is Pretty
There is another tattoo which all people have. It’s the tattoo of the curse that is etched upon our souls. Everyone has it. No curse tattoo is pretty. Each one is ugly and permanent.
The source of this curse tattoo comes from the earliest days of our world. Adam and Eve, the first human beings had untouched skin and clean souls. They were created pure and good with no curse to be seen.
But in the third chapter of Genesis, we are told what happened when Adam disobeyed God and rejected God’s creative plan for his life. Adam ate from the fruit which was forbidden, having dropped the ball on all of his responsibilities, leaving Eve to fend for herself against the deceptive enemy, the serpent. The result of Adam’s sin was a permanent consequence. It was something which was more indelible than anything you get in a tattoo parlour. It was a curse.
And to Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
Genesis 3:17-19
and have eaten of the tree
of which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.
By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
for you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.
No Curse Tattoo Removal Kit
So there is no getting away from this tattoo stamped on all the race of Adam’s children. We all have the stamp. What it means is that we spend our days in survival mode hurting and being hurt in a cursed world, living with the fear of death, because we know we will die. And that’s just the beginning of the curse of death leading to an everlasting hell.
There is no curse removal that can be found in all the history of human invention. You can’t remove the curse like you can a tattoo.
I remember standing in line at the store and seeing a young man who had just had his tattoos removed. He was a young Hutterite man I knew and I asked him why his arms were openly covered in oozing pus, dead white cells and scabs. He told me that he was marrying a Hutterite girl and that he needed to remove his tattoos in order to be let back into their Colony.
Tattoo removal is painful but possible. No curse removal is humanly possible. If it was, it would surely be painful too. People have been looking for millennia but there is no curse removal kit.
Curse For Us
Because there is no known solution to the curse tattoo we all have, to find a true cure would be the best thing in the world. Surely it would involve pain and it would need to be applied. But if it worked it would be the best news ever.
Thankfully there is a solution. It doesn’t come from human creations but from the mind of God. Here is the fine print on the label of this curse removal kit:
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
Galatians 3:13
When Jesus Christ was crucified, he substituted himself for curse tattooed people, even though the skin of his soul was an impeccably pure canvas.
But Jesus took on our tattoos. Etched and pierced with them all. There was no fallen ink left that he didn’t take upon himself. And he took them to the grave with him. Jesus the incarnate Son of God died according to the flesh, having received the full consequence of the curse upon himself.
The God-ordained curse removal kit is summed up in this label:
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Cor 5:21
No Curse Anymore
The effectiveness of this curse removal is that in heaven, no curse tattoos can be found anywhere. This hope is for people who feel stained by sin, who have been inked by the sin of others, or who have been spreading their own curse tattoos on every relationship they touch.
All that is required is to trust in what God has provided. Jesus suffered the curse of death, and rose from the dead on the third day so that his curse removal kit can be applied. It works!
And for those who rely on this curse removal formula, namely trusting in Jesus himself, there is an amazing promise. In the book of Revelation it says:
No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.
Revelation 22:3
The hope of heaven is that there will be no curse forever. The fallen ink of this sin-stained world will be no more. Those who have taken the generous application of God’s curse removal plan will enjoy having their souls clean and healed in the glow of God’s glory. That will be more blessed than life on any beach.
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