Stain Remover


Doing laundry is not a task I particularly enjoy - but dealing with stains on laundry is the worst!

In addition to the multitude of products that are available to buy - there are also a lot of tricks that an experienced laundress (like me 😁) will tell you.  Things like: grass stains take a mixture of baking soda and white vinegar, lipstick can be removed if you first blot with isopropyl alcohol, and Dawn dish detergent will remove oil spots - even after the material has gone through the dryer...

But enough of that!  What if the stain is sin - how can we remove that?!

I heard a good analogy the other day, one that said sin is a lot like poison.  For while a drop of poison doesn't make the water poison itself, it does polson the water.  Poisoned water is contaminated.  You wouldn't drink it, you probably wouldn't use it to water your plants, and you wouldn't give it to your pets.  Poisoned water is bad - just like sin is bad - and once the water is poisoned, you can't undo it - just like we can't undo sin.

To be honest - the sad news is there is NO WAY we can remove the stain of sin from our lives.  And even if we resolve to "do better," that stain remains with us - UNLESS and UNTIL we turn to Christ.

For the only stain remover that works on sin - is blood. The blood of Jesus shed for all of us so that our sins may be forgiven...

He said as much at the last supper when He used the bread and the wine to warn his disciples that His body and blood would be broken and poured out for us.

So today - let us remember that on our own, we cannot work hard enough, pray long enough, do enough good works or support enough charities to undo the sin that - like the drop of poison - has made us SINFUL.  

"The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, 'Look,, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!'" - John 1:29

"While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, 'Take and eat; this is my body.'  Then he took a cup and when he had given thanks, he gave it to the, saying, 'Drink from it, all of you.  This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.'" - Matthew 26:26-28

"'Come now, let u settle the matter,' says the Lord.  'Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.'" - Isaiah 1:18

The world needs Jesus.





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