Jeremiah mentions something very interesting concerning the cleansing of sin. It says "though you take unto
you [lye] and much soap, yet is your iniquity marked before me saith the
Lord." (2:22) It's a reminder of our sin and our wickedness and that we
can do nothing to cleanse ourselves from it. Lye can take your skin off, but it
won't take away sin! It makes 1 John 1:7 and those like it that much more
beautiful ..."the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth from sin."
Praise The Lord that when we were "dead in our sins" that He
"made us alive" by "the precious blood of Christ." (Colossians 2:13-14) I love this comparison and how Christ fulfills the Law and satisfies Gods wrath against sin by
sacrificing His Son. A Savior like that could not have been imagined by a
mortal mind.
Lord thank you for dying for my sin! I think of when Eustace was turned into a dragon in C.S. Lewis's "Voyage of the Dawn Treader." Though he clawed and scraped and tore at his hideous scales with his teeth and claws, only by submitting himself to the Great Lion was he freed from his "sin." Lovely picture.
Thank you that Your blood accomplishes that which I cannot.
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