Imagine you wore a white shirt, a white hat, white pants, white socks, white shoes and white gloves and you didn’t want any of it to get stained…
Your life would be different
You’d walk through life in a completely different way. Your approach would be different. Your worries would be different. You’d concern yourself with keeping your clothes unstained and all the other worries of life would simply disappear. Not that they wouldn’t exist but that they’d be insignificant relative to the current matters. They’d be unimportant to what you wanted and were trying to achieve. Everything else in life would fall into 2nd, into the shadow of what you truly cared about now…
Keeping your white garments stain free, pure and holy.
But most of us didn’t know
Now in our walk through life, we didn’t know. We may of had some sort of inclination but we couldn’t see it and no one else warned us. So we walked through life never knowing we even had white clothes on. Only to find out we did… and ruined it. That we stained our clothes, defiled, corrupted and utterly made a mess of our life.
But thankfully, we have a Savior
But glory be to God that He gave His Only Son Jesus Christ, who was tortured, beaten, abused and made fun of, who was murdered and made to suffer death unjustly. So that He would bear the burden of all of our stains, all of our mistakes, our wrongdoings, and our errors. To bear the burden of all the damage and injury we’ve caused to others and ourselves. All the pain and hurt. And in doing so, He became the renewer of all offering salvation to the world.
He became pure water to our stains, to clean your white garments and make them completely brand new so we could start all over again. But this time, knowing what is right and good and keeping yourself from stains. And being washed by His blood.
He became the right to our wrongs. The ointment to our injuries. The medicine to our sickness. The soother of our pain and hurt. The peace to our fears.
He paid the price for our debts. They want debt forgiveness and yet they know not that Jesus Christ has provided forgiveness to all who come to Him.