FINAL R INSE You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. John 15:3 niv
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emember as a kid running back from the beach, ravenous after a day of play? Perhaps you were headed to the car, or a beach house, or even a room at a resort, but you were racing to fill your tummy . . . and your mother would call out to you, “Stop at the spigot!” every single time. Ugh, you knew what that meant. Outdoor showers and spigots are commonplace at the beach, yet no matter how hard we try, we can never get truly clean with them. Sure, we can get a lot of sand off of our children and ourselves, but no matter how hard we try—or how long—we still wind up tracking in sand. Thankfully, Jesus doesn’t require the same degree of cleanliness our mothers did. Whenever we meet with the Lord, whether we realize it or not, we are ravenous. Yet He does not require us to wash off the sin we inevitably track in before we partake of time with Him. And even if He did, no matter how hard or how long we tried, we would still be wearing our sin as we approached Him. As Jesus washes us clean with His grace and forgiveness, He fills our spirits with His. For that moment, we are clean and satisfied; but we will need to cleansed another time. And another time. And another. He receives us every time, reminding us that He has taken care of it.
Lord Jesus, thank You that I may come to You wearing my sin, my guilt, my shame, and You will wash me clean.
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