Out Spot Out

Lady Macbeth couldn't get rid of the blood stain. Too often I can't seem to get rid of the blueberry, peach, banana, black bean, carrot, or whatever else she ate stains out of Coralyn's clothes. Today is laundry day in the Young household, so as I read Hebrews 1:3 this morning part of the verse really stuck out to me.

"After He died to cleanse us from the stain of sin..." I was already thinking about stains and God knew that. He speaks my language (funny, how He seems to relate every day things to His Word and living for Him). To God our sin is a big stain. We are dirty and gross. We are grimy and yucky. We are really one big nasty stain, compared to God's holiness. I think of the verse in Isaiah where it compares how even the good deeds that we do are like filthy rags. Thank goodness God has the power to remove even the toughest stains! His magic formula? Jesus' blood! Normally you would think of blood as a hard stain to remove not something you would use to get a stain out, but God always seems to do things a bit differently than we would! :) And God doesn't just spray a little bit of Jesus' blood on our sin. No, no, no. He washes us in the blood and makes us completely clean. As the verse says in 1 Corinthians, we are totally new creations! There is no hint whatsoever of our sin once we have been cleansed by Jesus' blood.

How thankful I am that God knows how to get even the worst of stains out! Now, let's just hope that Oxy clean does the trick on Coralyn's clothes today! :)