Cleansed

September 10

Jesus came to earth to establish the law of God. He is the only person who has ever fulfilled the law in its entirety. None of us, though we may aspire to be righteous, have ever been able to do that. Had it been possible for us to comply with the perfect law of our perfect God, each of us would have been responsible to do so without His help.

But we couldn’t. We can’t. We never will, as long as we are in this tabernacle of flesh. We are tarnished by the original sin of our first parents, Adam and Eve. Though we may not possess the physical characteristics they had—were they white or brown or yellow or red-skinned? Did they have blue or brown or green eyes? Was their hair straight or curly, dark or light or red? We don’t know. It’s irrelevant.

But we do know that they passed along to us their proclivity to sin. We lapse into transgression simply by virtue of our living and breathing. Sin is our nature and we are true to it! We surrender ourselves to lies, to envy, to gossip, to unkindness. Even if we endeavor to obey the ‘letter of the law,’ we fail to live the ‘law of love.’ Because we cannot keep the law in its entirety, we are guilty of it totally.

To hate is to do murder. To envy is to steal. To lust is to commit adultery. Our hearts condemn us; however, because of our Savior Jesus Christ, God does not. The Word assures us that, “The Son of Man came to find lost people and to save them,” Luke 19:10. He excludes no one. All who are willing to lay their sin at His feet are cleansed by Jesus sacrifice of love.