Once football practice was over and you went to the locker room and started taking off the football gear you started realizing how hot and dirty you were. When you got under the shower and the water started hitting you sometimes you would just stand there and relax and let that water flow over you. Then you would grab one of the bars of soap that had been given to the school, as the price of admission, at the annual soap scrimmage and start lathering up your body and washing away all that filth and grime and sweat and such that was on you.

Have you ever thought that cleaning is just what God wants us to do with him? Everyday we must clean our bodies, but we also need to clean up spiritually each day.

The shower and cleaning each day should not be taken for granted. Running hot water inside a house, during all seasons of weather, with it draining away is a miracle that hasn’t been in the lives of humans forever.

The spiritual cleaning we need has been available for 2,000 years, ever since Jesus died on the cross for our sins, but we seem to ignore it and think we don’t need it. Many people have this thought; I went forward at a religious service or was confirmed years ago so I am good. Sorry to tell you, but no one is perfect and we all need to be cleaned up every day from the filth, dirt, sweat and grime we live in each day in this world.

May we thank God for the miracle of the cleaning we have available in our lives from Him.

1 John 1:8-9 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.