My oh my what crazy weather we seem to be having these days. With the snow we had last week and the much warmer temperatures for the last couple of days, our back yard is a muddy mess. This mess is made much worse by the fact that we have a 2 year old Brittany named JT who loves to run in the mud! Needless to say that when he comes back in the house his feet are a mess and that mess quickly transfers to the carpet!
As I read Psalm 40:1-11 (which is the Lectionary Psalm for this week) I can relate what the Psalmist writes here to the stains left by the mud on JT’s feet which transfers quickly to the carpet! The Psalmist writes that he is ever grateful that God has lifted him up out of the mire (v2) and God has set his feet on a rock which makes his footing sure. However, the fact remains that mud leaves stains – whether the stains are on JT’s feet or on the carpet, the stains remind me of the mud from whence they came. Our lives are just like that, except the stains of our lives do not come from mud but from sin. I know how to get the stains off JT’s feet and our carpet, but how do we get the stains from sin out of our lives? In thinking about that I am taken to John’s Revelation chapter 7, verse 14. There in that verse, the saints who have died have white robes because, “they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” The blood of Jesus removes any stains that you and I have put in or on our robes. Isn’t that odd—that by putting our faith in Christ Jesus, his blood makes our robes white. I read that passage of scripture to a young woman who was dying from cervical cancer. She told me her robe was so dirty that nothing could cleanse it. I read that passage to her a second time and told her that Jesus’ blood can and will make her robe clean. With big alligator tears in her eyes, she said, “You really believe that don’t you!” My response was, “I not only believe it, it is what gives me hope!” Today, how stained is your robe? Amen. Comments are closed.
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