Cleanse Your Way

Here is a “dirty joke”: A pig wallowed in the mud.

Here is the clean version: The pig took a bath!

Baths physically cleanse us from dirt that we may either see or not see.

We go a lot of places during the day; outdoors, all over the house, and who knows where else. A nice bath or shower afterward is the perfect way to clean up.

What if we get dirty spiritually?

There are a lot of places where we can go to get dirty. The Psalmist said, “How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word (Psalm 119:9).”

To clean up where we’ve gone and what we’ve done, we need to pay close attention to the Word of God. Though study, we learn who Jesus Christ is and what He has done for us. He died on the cross to save us from our sins; therefore His blood was shed that our sins can be taken away. When we are baptized into Christ, we come in contact with His blood to wash away our sins (Acts 2:38; 22:16; Hebrews 10:22).

There is no joke about it; we can cleanse our way by following God’s Word!