WIPED CLEAN

Read Colossians 2:9-15

Repent and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out.

Acts 3:19

Offensive words---big, stark, and depressing---had been scrawled on the wall of the building. Someone came along with a can of paint and painted over the words. The result was a clean, attractive wall.

I had inscribed across my life words, behaviors, and attitudes that were offensive to God. They often appeared in my mind, especially when I begin to seek God. How could God, who is righteous, accept me with all the moral and spiritual graffiti polluting my life?

Then I heard about Jesus Christ and the cross. Jesus saw the slate of my failures and offences and paid the penalty for them. He not only forgave my sins, but he also wiped my heart clean. By faith in Christ as my Lord and Savior, I have a new beginning, a new destiny. Calvary is the sign of my sin's defeat. Before the Lord, we are clean. The cross proclaims that we have been made clean.

Raymond N. Hawkins(Tasmania, Australia)

Thank you, dear God, for cleansing my life through the cross of Jesus Christ. May our lives be pleasing in your sight, according to your word and the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Jesus is coming! Are you ready?