DAILY?READINGS: 1 Kings 12; Jeremiah 21-22; Colossians 1:1-20
All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Isaiah 64:6
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Psalm 51:7b
After falling into a nearby sewage pond, a small boy came to his home expecting to be welcomed inside, but was instead sent by his mother to wash the filth away. The Bible tells us that nothing that defiles will ever enter into heaven (Rev. 21:27). We are defiled by sin and thus have no claim on heaven. But God still wants us there and the Lord Jesus has shed His blood to make us utterly clean and fit to enter. Have you come to Jesus and accepted His cleansing from sin? —Janet Fleming
Jesus came down from heaven to die,
To die for a sinner like me,
As His blood flowed down at Calvary’s cross
In His death, my forgiveness, I see. —J. F.