“Not responsible for gravel projectiles smashing your windshield.”

That’s what the sign on the back of the dump truck read. Or something like that. Every time I read those warnings on trucks hauling gravel, I have this discussion with myself:

Is it really true that if gravel from that truck damages my car, the owner of the truck would not be responsible? Maybe I should slow down (or zoom past)? Wait. Maybe I could hang a sign on my backside when I’m having a bad day that says, “Not responsible for sarcastic put-downs or rude behavior caused by anger, irritability, or stress.”

As unfair as we think it is for a gravel trucker to claim that we are responsible for his unsafe hauling, we do the same thing when we make others responsible for our bad behavior.

Nobody is responsible for your sins, your mistakes, and your problems except you. The sooner you admit that you caused them, the sooner you’ll be free from them. But that’s not all.

Jesus does promise that he is responsible for your problems. Not that he caused them, but he has cured them.

Jesus “bore our sins in his body on the tree … ‘by his wounds you have been healed’” (1 Peter 2:24). Jesus is the only one who makes your sins his responsibility.

Whether gravel, pebble, or big boulder of guilt, Jesus will take it. And break it. Just like his tomb when he burst out of it alive.