Stained

A stain in material can be permanent, a reminder of a spill, an unlucky mishap that was not looked at or taken care of immediately. Get to the spill soon enough and chances are good that with the right cleaning agent and a little bit of elbow grease, the stain will lift off of the material. Notice the stain after it has had a chance to soak in and it becomes a part of the fabric forever-no amount of scrubbing, no amount of cleaner will get that stain out. Have you experienced this Dear Reader? Have you spilled food or drink on your favourite top, pants or even table clothe? Were you anxious to get the offending spillage out of your clothes, to protect what you like and prevent a stain? How frustrated were you when it didn't come out? Were you relieved, the time that it did? There is a sense of haphazardness with stains, a lack of confidence goes with not knowing what the outcome will be. The material is either salvaged and useable still or it is ruined, ready for the garbage heap or car cleaning as a rag. This is what sin looks like, Dear One. Sin can soak the soul, stain the spirit and when it does, nothing can seemingly remove the offending mark it leaves. Try as you might, you can scrub and clean, use that elbow grease you have at your ready and yet, you can't come clean, you cannot wash it away with all of your efforts. Look at it, that rag of a soul you hold in your hands. Nothing you can do will make it clean again, Dear Reader. In fact the more you scrub, the more the stain spreads. Looking at the stain means you see it there, you know how it got there. It is a moment of reckoning and you are alone with the truth that it is your spill, you are responsible for the stain. 1 John 1:7 - "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." Jesus, the Son, cleanses us of our stain, our sin: Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, and let us reason together, " says the Lord, "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Take your sin soaked stained soul Dear One and go to Jesus, be washed clean by His sacrificial blood, shed once and for all for you, for me. Come clean now, it is time.