The Stain

I arrived at work first thing this morning, a little before 6 a.m. I had on a beautiful white shirt and after several hours of greeting ladies that came to work out at my Curves, I stepped into the ladies room. Looking in the full length mirror, I was horrified to see a coffee stain on the side of my shirt. It was huge!! And worst of all, it was DRY. That meant that it had happened perhaps first thing that morning, and I never even noticed!!

How does that happen? How do we, as Christians, go through life staining our souls, and not even notice? How about an evil reaction when we get cut off in traffic? How about a “little” gossip about our neighbor? How about a second thought about the cute FedEx guy?

David wrote about this in Psalms, especially Psalms 51:5 “Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.” (NIV) We are covered by the Blood, and washed clean. But just as in John 13:10, Jesus tried to wash Peter’s feet, and he did not want to allow it. Jesus pointed out that he was clean (washed by the blood) but his feet were dirty (from walking through this world). Thus we need to be aware of the dirt or stains that we “pick up” in this world, and let our Savior cleanse our feet regularly.