The white board on my study wall was full of out of date messages. With my finger I started to remove the unwanted information. As I swiped my finger along the surface before long every message was gone; I had a completely clean white board again.
As I woke up this morning I thought about the day ahead. In my mind it was completely unblemished, but I knew that soon I would be making mistakes, saying unkind things or being completely selfish. My unblemished day would become mucky and spoilt. I would litter the day with mistakes, omissions and forgetfulness. The prospect of a perfect day would be scarred by my worthlessness.
Then I imagined the finger of God. It was obliterating all my dirty smudges. The whole white board of my life would soon be clean, back to it’s pristine whiteness. Back to the condition he wanted it to be.
‘What shall wash away my sin, nothing but the blood of Jesus.’ by Robert Lowry
Every day God gives us all a clean slate and we then mess up and spoil it, but by the death of Jesus, we will become ‘white as snow again.’ This is what God wants for us.