There are many different kinds of soaps and cleansers in the stores. There are kitchen soaps, detergents with stain removers for clothes, cleansers for sinks, cleaners for floors, spray-on window cleaners, bath soaps, and some hand soaps that even say they are antibacterial. But how can we know which one is best? We could try each one, but that would take a long, long time. We can read what the different soap makers say, but that won’t help much, because each one says theirs is best.
Besides dirty hands, dirty clothes, dirty windows and dirty floors, there is something else that needs to be washed clean. It is our hearts. Do you know that your heart is full of sin? The Bible says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:99The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)). Do you also know that unless your heart is washed from sin you cannot go to be with the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven?
Although there are many cleansers we can use to wash our hands, clean our cars or wash our clothes, none of these will clean our hearts from sin. Jeremiah 2:2222For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God. (Jeremiah 2:22) tells us, “Though thou wash thee with nitre [lye], and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity [sin] is marked before Me, saith the Lord God.” God has provided the only stain remover for the heart. It can wash away all of our sins and make our hearts 100% clean! It is the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that He shed on Calvary’s cross for you and for me. Is your heart still dirty with sin? Or have your sins been washed away by the blood of Jesus?
ML-10/10/2004