A MAN was traveling in Africa, and stayed overnight at a cottage in the country. When he went to bed that night, he couldn’t help noticing how dirty the bedroom floor was. It looked as if it had not been cleaned for months. So he decided to tell the landlady the next day to have it scrubbed.
The next morning, when the sun came up and the man could see better, he noticed that no amount of scrubbing would ever make the floor clean. The floor was made of big clods of dirt, trodden down till a solid surface was formed, as level and smooth as any ordinary floor. No amount of soap and water would do it any good!
This is just like ourselves as sinners until we know the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus. No amount of scrubbing or good works can make us clean in God’s sight and yet how many people try very hard to make themselves fit for His presence. But it will do them no more good than trying to scrub that dirty floor. They find that they sin in spite of themselves and before God they are worse off than they were before.
The Lord Jesus is the only one who can wash away our sins and make us pure and clean in His sight. Let each of us be sure that our sins are washed away in His precious blood, for “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).
ML-01/13/1974