Man I am Dirty!!!

Could you imagine, these days if we had to go through all of the same cleansing rituals that all the people in Moses’ day had to do? I mean seriously, if we had to perform the same cleansing techniques, you probably wouldn’t see hardly anybody, because everybody would be unclean for something, or having to wait for their 7 days before being able to see or touch anyone. We would all become social rejects. And these rituals we are reading about today, these are cleansing procedures for things like mildew, and bodily fluid leakage (in either gender), and really just typical things that every human being goes through on a daily basis. This is tapping in to what God thinks about things being unclean, and what should be done about them. Things that we might see as small, or trivial, or not really mattering much because we experience them so much and so frequently. But if you notice, all of these things that God and Moses are discussing, are physical things. Could you imagine then what God thinks about the dirt and grime of our spirits, and what would it take to clean us up spiritually? To clean us up spiritually so that we might be clean before God? Well the answer is no, we couldn’t imagine what it would take to clean it up, but God did know what it would take. His son, dying for us on a cross. That was the only thing that would be able to pay for the sins that you and I have done for our entire lives, to make us pure and holy in the eyes of our lord. A good example of this is grease and oil. Have you ever had engine oil, or grease on your hands or arms, and then tried to wash it off with water and just regular soap? That’s stuff ain’t coming off unless you decide to grab a wire brush, and then it just becomes painful. So we walk around with dirty, oily hands. But then one day we discover GOJO, which is like Jesus. It is the ultimate thing to wash us clean, he is the only way that we can be cleaned up, to be presented before the father. Just a little thought to keep in mind when reading today’s scripture.