The devil likes to remind us of our past — but God wants to remind us of our future. We all have a background of sin, but when we accept Christ’s sacrifice on our behalf, we’re pronounced “not guilty”. The blood of the Lamb has washed us clean in God’s eyes. Let’s live like we’ve been set free — because we have!

The world is full of people who are addicted to something— drugs, money, fame, sex, food, material possessions, and the list goes on. But true freedom requires more than just getting sober — it requires getting clean. Jesus is the only One who can clean a person’s life up from the inside out, and He waits patiently for us to answer the question, “Do you want to be made well?”

When we give our lives to Christ, God declares us holy and blameless in His sight. Yet often, we’d rather go back to our old sin than live in the freedom God’s granted us. He’s capable of restoring us and making us spotless from our past mistakes, but we have to be willing to allow Him to change us from the inside out.

Sometimes it feels like our sin is too great for God to fully forgive — but Jesus’ blood is powerful enough to make us new. He cleanses us fully and completely from our past, present, and future transgressions. Instead of living as though we can’t be made clean, or living in sin and taking advantage of God’s grace, let’s humbly confess and then allow Him to wash us with His forgiveness.

You don’t shower or do laundry once and call it good for the rest of your life (ahhh, but wouldn’t that be nice?!). In the same way that it’s necessary to wash our bodies and our clothes on a regular basis in order to make them clean, it’s critical for us to wash ourselves spiritually by spending time in God’s Word. Through Christ’s blood, we can be washed white as snow, but it’s up to us to keep up on our daily “hygiene”.

It sounds contradictory to say that the only way to be made clean is to be made dirty, doesn’t it? Yet that’s exactly what Scripture tells us! The whole reason Jesus came to earth in a physical body was to fulfill the requirement that a blood sacrifice had to be made to wash away the sins of the world. And no matter how much we try to clean ourselves up, we’re filthy with sin unless we’ve been washed by the blood of Christ.

Here’s the thing about a white toilet: you can’t hide any filth in it, because white reveals dirt. In the same way, when we live in the light like God calls us to, we can no longer hide the filth of our sin. And just like the solution to keeping our “white toilets” white is to clean them daily, the way to keep our hearts clean is to live in obedience to God each and every day.

Before God even created the world, He already had a perfect plan: He would send His only Son to die for us because He loves us more than we could ever imagine. When we choose to accept His gift of salvation, He writes each of our names in the Book of Life. He’s calling us to Himself so that we can be saved from the destruction of this world’s end, and spend eternity with Him.

Jesus lived a sinless life, then He took our sin on the cross and paid the price on our behalf. Because of what He’s done for us, we’ve been washed clean and made holy. Not only that, but we can approach God boldly, knowing we’re forgiven.