Hands #9

When our hands are dirty from working in the garden or we have been to Wal-Mart when the flu season is at it's peak what do we do as soon as we can? Wash our dirty, germy hands!!! What does God call us to do when our spiritual life is dirty?

James 4:8
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Wash our hands, purify our hearts, and get a single mind in Christ is our call! When we do these things we draw near to God and He draws near to us! Who in their right mind doesn't desire that???? Thank grace and mercy for the shed blood of Christ for that is our spiritual soap! Nothing else can make us spiritually clean but the blood!

Remember this hymn?

What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Refrain:
Oh! precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For my pardon, this I see,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
For my cleansing this my plea,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Nothing can for sin atone,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
Naught of good that I have done,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
This is all my hope and peace,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
This is all my righteousness,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Now by this I’ll overcome—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
Now by this I’ll reach my home—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Glory! Glory! This I sing—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus,
All my praise for this I bring—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

So once again I ask...are your hands clean this morning? They can be by being washed in the blood of Jesus!

Tom