Many are the efforts of men and women to blot out the thoughts, the guilt and the fears which rise from their sins from their minds and hearts. Some try to blot them out by their busyness. They occupy themselves every moment with something to distract them from thoughts of judgment and sin. They work and they work so that their labor and activity blots out the thought of sin and God. Others occupy themselves with various recreations. They are always planning how to "get away from it all." They play and they play. They entertain themselves with the fun and the frivolous so as never to allow a thought of eternity or truth to enter in. Many involve themselves in the "doing" of religion. They are involved in the labors of "doing for God" rather than in thinking what God must do for them because of their sin. They participate in religious rituals, they give to religious causes and they become "active in the church" so that they might appease and quiet a condemning conscience. But if I take a bottle of dye and pour it all over a bill, it may make the bill so that I cannot read it, but it does not cancel the debt! They only way that the debt which the bill represents can be blotted out is for it to be paid in full! You may blot your sins out of your memory and silence for a time your fears with false hopes, but the peace you gain temporarily is a false one. The peace which comes from the forgiveness of God is altogether different. God's forgiveness of sin is just and righteous through the satisfaction which Christ Jesus made by His death on the cross. His sacrifice of blood alone can "put away sin!" His righteousness alone can justify, whether before God or in the conscience of men. God blots out the sin of those who trust Christ freely, fully, eternally and justly! "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee." (Isa 44:22) God blots out the "thick cloud" of our sin and transgressions through the redeeming blood of His Son. Christ has laid down His life as a ransom for sin, dying for sinners. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;" (Acts 3:19) Stop trying to blot the sin question out of your mind with work, play, religion and every other means! Man's devices may blot the bill of sin out of mind briefly but only the blood of Christ can blot the debt out the books of God's justice!