Imagine your favorite dress. You love wearing it. You feel like a completely different woman when wearing it. It brings a smile to your face every time you get the opportunity to wear it. Now imagine that opportunity has come. You’ve been invited to a black tie affair. Oh yes, the dress is coming out!
You step out of the car. Your hair is up and your earrings shine. The dress. There are no words. As you gracefully embrace the walkway to the door all of a sudden you look down to find a stain. Oh no, it’s gets bigger at every glance! The red permanent scarlet dye continues to make a big circle until there is no possible way to hide it any longer. You are well aware that the deep stain is almost impossible to remove from clothing. Your day and the dress is ruined.
The stain of sin is equally mortifying. What if we had to walk around covered in crimson every moment of our lives? Thank God we don’t. Though the stain in that dress may never come out, God can remove the stain of sin in our lives just as He did for the Israelites in Isaiah. We are assured by His Word that if we remain obedient and willing, Jesus Christ removes those stains. Not only does he remove them; He makes them white as snow.
Psalm 51 says that He will blot out our trangressions…He will cleanse us from our sins.
Have you asked Him yet to make you clean?