To Be...Cleaned Up

September 19

Slowly we are decluttering from summer!  It felt great to clean out our front hall closet, give it a fresh coat of white paint and neatly put things back inside.  My husband just questioned, "You even zipped up our jackets??????"  My reply, "Yes, they look so nice!"

Our lives get cluttered too, don't they?  God has a clean up process available.  It's better than a coat of white paint.  It's the blood of Christ, which washes all our sins away.  We have to start the cleaning out process with the confession of our sins.  It's what Jesus did that puts us back together again.

"If we say that we share in life with God and keep on living in the dark, we are lying and are not living by the truth. But if we live in the light, as God does, we share in life with each other.  And the blood of his Son Jesus washes all our sins away.  If we say that we have not sinned, we are fooling ourselves, and the truth isn't in our hearts."  1 John 1:6-8

"God our Savior showed us how good and kind he is.  He saved us because of his mercy, and not because of any good things that we have done. God washed us by the power of the Holy Spirit. He gave us new birth and a fresh beginning.  God sent Jesus Christ our Savior to give us his Spirit." 
Titus 3:4-6

"Wash me with hyssop until I am clean and whiter than snow."  Psalm 51:7