Today's the day when in 1773 The Boston Tea Party took place. In case you don't remember, it was actually no tea party at all. What happened was this: a group of colonists from Massachusetts disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three British tea ships in Boston Harbour and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbour. This was not pure vandalism. It was a protest against the British Government's 'Tea Act', which gave unfair privileges to the British East India Company in America.
The value of the tea they threw overboard was about £12,000. And that was a lot of money then. But once it was in the water there was no recovering it. It had gone for good.
The Bible uses this picture of throwing things to the bottom of the sea when it explains how God treats our wrongs and failures. This is what the prophet Micah says:
Who is a God like you,
who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry for ever
but delight to show mercy.
You will again have compassion on us;
you will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
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