Cleansing Power

I NOW RECEIVE THE CLEANSING POWER OF DIVINE LOVE, AND I AM RENEWED AND REFRESHED.

If we spill a glass of milk, we may be disturbed for a few moments. We may blame ourselves for being so clumsy, or we may even try to blame another for causing us to have the accident. But most of the time we mop it up and it is soon forgotten. We would become concerned if we saw someone actually “crying over spilled milk,” wouldn’t we? If one continued the self-blame and wailed endlessly about this misfortune, pointing to the spot even after it had long been cleaned up, we would soon become impatient, to say the least.

Yet we permit ourselves to act in much the same manner at times. We may keep looking at the failure of some project and inwardly cry bitterly for years or even for a lifetime. We may continue pointing at the spot of the spill—which could be a place of unhappiness for us in the past. At times we blame others for our accidents—for our spills and misfortunes. Let us realize how ridiculous this is also! The power of prayer can wipe away the condition and cleanse the memory of it from our minds forever.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:8)

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