Thursday 19 Sep 2013

Thursday Reading: Proverbs 20:9

Key Verse: Proverbs 20:9
9  Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Devotion:
Our hearts are by our very nature, unclean. Our minds are grown and educated in a corrupt society. Our hearts are grown in amongst strange lust and affections. Not one part of us can be said to be clean or to have been cleaned by ourselves in any way. Every person has this same problem as us because we are all sinners. But, just like every other person on this earth, we do have a way of having a clean heart!

There are some things in our lives that stain terribly, be it red dust tainted by iron deposits, deep purple from various berries, green from plants or whatever. When we try to clean these stains away we find it is much harder than just cleaning our hands after playing in the dirt. But when we do have the right chemicals to work against those stains we can get things back to normal. When we bring sin into our lives we are playing with something that will stain our lives; if we want to be able to remove those stains from our lives we do have to have the right agent to counteract the stains. No matter how many chemicals or anything else we try, we will not be able to find anything that cleans our sins out of our lives others than Christ’s blood!

Have you ever gone to one of those cleaning services that guarantee to remove various stains? They are making a promise to you that they will remove the stain and if they fail at that promise they will give you some sort of reward or refund. But when we read the promise that Christ gives us we find something quite unique. His promise is that He will cleanse our hearts and there is no reason to offer any sort of recompense for failing to do so; His promise is a promise and failure is not an option!

Christ will wash every speck of those stains from our hearts and souls and present us to God as perfect, without sin stains. That does not mean that we no longer will sin, because just like clean clothes we face a dirty environment and we will once again be corrupted by the sin around us. But what it does mean is that when we are presented before God we will not have any sin stains left from our lives because Christ has taken them away. What a Saviour!

Points to Ponder:
Do you feel clean after playing in mud?

Do you feel good being amongst sinners?