Confident Clean

“Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.”

This is a great verse. Think about it. We can draw near to God with full assurance of faith. Because we have Jesus, the Great High Priest, we can walk in faith in our relationship with God. We can walk in faith about His plan for our life. We can walk in faith right into the Most Holy Place of God.

We can have confidence in faith that He will cover our shortcomings. When we receive the sacrifice that Jesus paid, we have the opportunity to not only be forgiven of sin, but also to be cleansed from a guilty conscience and have our bodies washed with pure water. This means we have to have faith in His ability to cleanse and purify us, taking away our sin and our guilty conscience.

I don’t know about you, but there have been a multitude of sins, mistakes and short-comings in my life that I regret. The best person alive, compared to the holiness of the Bible, deserves death and is consumed with guilt and shame. But when He saves us, He removes even the guilt. No matter what you have thought, said or done, it is gone and you are guilt-free under the blood of Jesus. You can have confidence as a child of God.

This passage even indicates that Christ will wash the result of sin from our body. Even a prostitute off the street, can be clean, righteous, true, holy and blameless in His sight because His blood is that powerful! Their bodies can be made vessels of righteous as they become the vessel to carry the Holy Spirit.

Let me encourage you today, do not allow the devil to keep you in condemnation when God has forgiven you and reclassified you as blameless and pure in His sight.

Verse 23 says “Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.” It does not depend on our ability to keep a promise, but rather on His ability to keep a promise! That is why we can be unswerving and unwavering. That is why we can have confidence in faith. We can step out in full confidence and believe God wants to be near us, wants to hear from us, wants to answer us and wants to manifest himself to us!

He is faithful- all day, every day. Therefore, we can be a people of great faith. Our faith is in him and in his steadfastness to keep his Word. So often we feel we don’t deserve God’s help, so we stay in messes for a while as penance for what we have done, feeling we are reaping what we have sown. Though that may be true, it flies in the face of Truth! The Truth is He paid the price and he does not need me to try to add to it.

Lord, thank you for loving me, for paying the price for me. Thank you for washing and cleansing me. Help me to be confident in this truth and help me to be mindful of your faithfulness toward me. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Sherri