Forever Clean and New

July 17

The law of God is immutable. His holy standard will never be compromised. Man’s concept of what is right and acceptable has evolved through time until his perception of truth is so corrupted that it bears no resemblance to the holy writ upon which the founding fathers of our nation established this country.

But we may be assured, God is not blotting out any part of His law to conform it to today’s version of ‘right’. Though our congress may dismiss God’s established ordinance with a vote, though our president may abrogate the law with a stroke of his pen, our Holy God’s standard remains unchanged for time and eternity.

We may liberalize our laws to satisfy the sin nature of man but this action does not ultimately satisfy man’s longing. As he plummets further and further into the abyss that is sin, he becomes ever more miserable with his existence, he becomes ever more disillusioned with the “pleasures of sin that endure but for a season” Hebrews 11:25. Fallen man knows in the depth of his corrupt heart that he needs to be extricated from the pit he has dug for himself.

Colossians 2:13, 14 says, “When you were dead in sins and the wretchedness of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave all your sins, and canceled out the law in your behalf when He nailed sin to His cross.” When a man is awash in the filth of sin and surrounded by the squalor it produces in his life, he knows in the depth of his innermost being that he needs a Savior. That Savior is Jesus. May each of us embrace Him with a fully surrendered heart that we might be forever clean and new.