LITTLE LAURA was helping her mother clean house. Mother sent her outside with a pail of water and a cloth and told her to wash the windows. A little later when Mother went outside and checked on her little daughter she found her almost in tears.
“Mother,” she said, “I’ve been rubbing hard on this window and it just won’t get clean.”
Mother soon found out the trouble. She found out the dirty spots were on the inside, and no amount of rubbing on the outside would make the window clean. Laura went inside and soon she had the window all clean and shiny.
How often we are like little Laura and the dirty window. We have tried to live clean lives outwardly, to be good, kind and loving to others, but still the ugly stains of sin are there. The truth is our hearts are filled with sin and the heart must be cleansed before our lives can be clean. Only the blood of Jesus can remove sin’s stains, but when we trust Him as our Saviour He washes us whiter than snow in God’s sight. Then from that cleansing within comes the purity without which others will see.
All welcome are to Jesus Christ—
The little children too,
May in the gracious Saviour fin,’
A loving Friend and true.
All welcome are to Jesus Christ,
Whoever will may come;
He came to seek and save the lost,
To call the wayward home.
ML-07/22/1973