Depends on the Agent Being Applied

In the quiet of the morning, as I prepared my breakfast, the Holy Spirit began a conversation with me. He reminded me of a series of events I want to share with you now.

Some time ago there used to be frequent "discussions" by someone in my household who would get notably annoyed when the egg pan would go through the dishwasher and come out not entirely clean.

They would say, "I don't know why this keeps being tried.  It is NEVER going to come out clean."   They would proceed to scrub it with their effort and get it clean enough for reuse.

Well, one day, I was shopping and I had a coupon to try a dishwasher tablet I would never think to try without a coupon because it is rather costly, but with said coupon, those dishwasher tablets went home with me.

I recall the very first time I ran the infamous egg pan through the dishwasher with those particular tablets. That pan SPARKLED!  I mean it literally shined as if it were brand new. I remember taking that pan and rocking it back and forth - seeing it sparkle under the kitchen light.  Highly amused and delighted, I physically smiled as I put that pan directly into the cabinet!

Here's the thing, dear ones.  John records for us in 1 John: "...the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from ALL sin..."

We can be as my household member surveying our life (the egg pan), "It is never going to come out clean" - even as we try day after miserable day to scrub it with our own effort, trying to make it clean enough for reuse the next day and the next day and the next day thereafter.

OR

We can use the COSTLY Agent we in truth could never afford and be cleansed; made NEW. (2 Corin 5:17)

 I thrill each time God uses my 'every day' to reinforce His Word, His Way, His POWER.

On our best day, with our best effort, with our best "scrubbing" - we don't even begin to get our pan clean - much less sanitized.  But now Jesus... I'll take Him EVERY day, ALL day because He ALONE possess the ability to make me NEW.   

I love how He inhabits me, daily cleaning me up from the inside out, granting to me a supernatural partnership that enables me to walk out my days in HIS righteousness, giving me not only the ability to do right, but the JOY to do right! Thank you, God; thank You, thank You, thank You! Thank You to infinity!   

Who is YOUR cleansing agent?

Yourself; a woefully lacking agent of
"it's never going to get clean!"

OR

Jesus - the buck stops here Agent
who makes everyone He touches NEW!