Daily Devotional for September 20, 2022
From Dirty to Clean
“Yuck!” Haven watched her mom dump water from their carpet cleaner into the large sink in their mud room. “That’s disgusting! Was all that dirt really in our carpet?”
Mom nodded. “It was,” she said. “I’m going to go over the carpet as many times as I need to until the water is clean.” Mom turned and headed back out to the living room.
Haven watched her mom from a distance as she worked on all the carpets in their home, then she hurried after her when it was time to dump the water.
“What do you think?” Mom asked. “Is it going to be dirty or clean?”
Haven wrinkled her nose. “I’m guessing dirty.”
Mom laughed. “I’m thinking it will still be a little dirty too.” She lifted the bucket of water and dumped it out. It wasn’t as dark as the water before it had been, but it was still a little dirty. “Time to run over it all again,” Mom said. “While I do, I want you to think about something.”
“What?” Haven’s forehead wrinkled.
“I want you to think about the song we sing in church about how Jesus’s blood makes us clean,” Mom said. “Can you do that?”
Haven nodded. “I could even sing it.”
“You do that,” Mom said. “Sing it loud so I can hear.”
Haven sang while her mom ran the carpet cleaner through their house again, only stopping when it was time to dump the water.
“Ready?” Mom asked. Haven nodded. Mom dumped the water, and Haven’s eyes grew wide. “It’s so clear! So clean!”
“It is,” Mom said. “That must mean the carpet is clean now, huh?”
Haven nodded. “You did a really good job.”
“Thanks.” Mom smiled. “And just like that song you were singing says, Jesus died to make us clean. We were dirty like that first bucket of water, but when we put our faith in Him, He washed away our sin and made us clean.”
“His blood makes us go from dirty to clean.” Haven nodded. “Like you just made the carpet go from dirty to clean.”
“Right,” said Mom. “But unlike cleaning carpets, which took several washes to get clean, Jesus forgives our sin and makes us pure before God the moment we trust in Him!”
-Emily Acker
How about you?
Do you ever feel dirty—like the bad things you do make you far away from God? Have you turned to Jesus for forgiveness? He wants to remove the guilt of your sin and make you perfectly clean! He shed His blood when He died on the cross so you could be forgiven and be made pure. Trust in Him today! (To learn more, click the “Good News!” button in the right column of this page.)
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