Time to Wash Up!

Read Leviticus 18:23-28

In the summer, most children like to spend all day outside. They like to dig in the dirt, ride their bikes, play baseball, eat popsicles, and be plain rowdy. And yet, when the day is done, there is one thing most children do not like to do-take a bath. They can make all kinds of excuses about how they don’t really need a bath. Usually they lose this argument when their mothers make them wash up.

In Old Testament times, the Israelites were also “dirty”-dirty from sin and in need of spiritual cleansing. Once a year, on the Day of Atonement, the high priest would make one sacrifice in the most holy part of the temple for the whole nation for the forgiveness of their sins. After the sacrifice is made, the high priest must…

“take off the linen garments…bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his regular garments.”(Leviticus 16:23-24)

Today, we are also in need of forgiveness and cleansing from our sin. We find this cleansing power in the blood of Jesus Christ. When we trust Him to be our Savior, our sins are forgiven and our lives are made new.

Have you trusted Jesus Christ to forgive you of your sins and give you a new life?

Do you need to trust Him now?

Thank God for Jesus, the Savior of the world.