Scrub-A-Dub-Dub, How Clean Is Your Tub?

What is it about hard water and the stains it leaves behind? I think I have used every cleanser in my arsenal, and yet, not one has cut through the white, spotted, streaking mess on the glass of my shower door, on the tile, on the fixtures. I scrub and scrub until my arm goes numb with the repetitious motion. I know if I hired a professional cleaning company to come in, they would spray some mysterious mixture of cleansers onto these stains and they would fade away, as if they never existed.

As I continue to struggle with these stains, these ghostly shadows from my past showers, it reminds me of our lives...of the way we allow the stains of our past, the pain, the failures, the flaws of who we once were to forever mark our souls. Yet there was One who came, the "Professional Cleaner", if you will, who had the "mysterious cleanser" that could wash all those stains away. His name was Jesus...is Jesus...and it was, and is, His Blood that made and continues to make all of those spots, streaks and stains disappear from my life...from yours. We have but to repent and to ask...and His Blood covers them all, erasing them from our souls as if they never existed. "....the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin." 1 John 1:7

How wonderful to know that my spotted, streaked life is cleaned daily by the Master! And that I know He doesn't have to scrub and scrub to make it clean...His Blood Covers and Cleanses with just one drop. His Blood keeps it that way. As I go back to my scrubbing, with each movement of my hand, my heart will say, "Thank You, Lord! Thank You for Your cleansing blood that covers me...that saves me...that forgives me! Thank You for Your reminder today of just how much You gave out of Your Love for me!"

"Sweet Jesus, thank you for loving me so much that you chose to give your life for mine. Thank you that your shed Blood cleanses me, covers me and keeps me. As I go through this day, help me to remember that without you, we are all stained with sin, and with you, we are all washed clean by the heavenly rain of your blood. I love you, Jesus, and I give you this day, this life, all that I am...and all that I hope to be...because only by your sacrifice, am I made worthy. In Jesus' name, Amen."