As I opened my door one morning I found on the steps a handbill advertising a wonderful preparation for the removal of all stains in cloth: “Sure to work—never fails!”
I read it and thought of other stains—stains that had struck into the textures of life and left dark marks upon soul and character—guilty stains. Who is without some of these stains?
Oh, how we try to keep them out of sight and cover them up! But the spots stick; they will not come out. They may be carefully kept out of sight, so that the garment of life is made to look fairly respectable. However, sooner or later they show up and the very effort to conceal them often directs attention to them.
Now, what a sale one might have of a mixture that would take out the stains of sin! What a market it would find! Can anything do this? Yes, a stream, a mighty stream of precious blood, and “sinners washed in that blest flood, lose all their guilty stains.”
Precious, you say? Then is it too costly? It cost God the life of His beloved Son, but to you it is without money and without price. None are so poor but that they may wash in this soul-cleansing stream and be clean, for it is the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, that cleanses from all sin. The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7).)
Soul-stained, sin-stained, will you try it? Try it, and you will find to your joyful satisfaction that it just meets your need—it is the very thing you want!
Come now, and let us reason together,
saith the Lord:
though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.