I found this really cool activity for youth groups to do with the idea of relying on God and giving our sins to God. When we give our sins to God he takes care of them and we honestly should spend a little less time worrying about. We repent and ask for forgiveness and the try hard to not committ the same sin. But the idea for an activity is getting helium filled ballons and markers like a sharpie. Then give each of the youth a balloon and a marker and then have them write a sin the sturggle with on it, and say something like "Lord I ask you to take this sin from me" or even "Lord free me from this sin" Then they can let the balloons go and watch them float up towards heaven with the idea of releasing our sins to God and him taking them away.
When Jesus died on the cross; he died so that we may be forgiven of our sins, He took on our punishment for our sins. When we ask for forgiveness and repent of our sins, He is taking them from us, as if wiping the slate clean. When we repent and ask God to forgive us there is no reason to feel guilty and worry about the sin, but we should try our best to not sin again. Some people think that you can repent, sin again, repent, sin again, etc. But the point is to repent...mean it and then try not to commit the sin again, but God does understand we are human and He will forgive us. I like the idea of taking a balloon, writing a sin on it and like a small prayer and sending it up to God. It gives a nice visual of handing things over to God.
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