A Spectacle Of Glory #172

Read: John 13:6-9

Talk to anyone who has experienced an extended stay in a hospital or rehab center, and they may tell you the thing they dread most is enduring a bed bath. All of us feel a profound aversion to being bathed by someone else. It’s way too personal, too private. Taking a bath is a routine we would rather do ourselves—if we were at all able to do so. But listen to what David prayed: “Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.”^a There was a time in David’s life when he felt so soiled, so thoroughly dirtied by sin, that he cried out for a cleansing only God could give him. Jesus said, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”^b You and I are in need of constant cleansing, and it’s foolish to deny it. Come to God today and ask Him to make your heart clean.

Father, thank You for the most precious substance in the universe—the blood of Your Son, Jesus, poured out for my sins. Nothing else can make me clean. Nothing else can heal my wounded conscience. Nothing else can open the doors of heaven for me. I owe everything I am to Jesus.