While revering Scripture in my personal and public prayer
life, sometimes I have to chuckle at some of the passages. Like today, for instance. God compares Israel to dirty
underwear! (A loincloth was the
regular undergarment for centuries.)
Like
many other prophets, Jeremiah was asked to do a symbolic prophecy in which he
took off his loincloth (I hope he put something else on!) and buried it, per
God’s instruction. When he was
told to dig it up later, naturally it was soiled.
God
provides us with a great image for sin.
Now I’ll move on from considering our unmentionables, but you all know
how quickly our clothes get dirty.
I know my laundry piles up, especially my work out clothes which
absolutely reek when I am done with exercising. Now, consider babies.
They literally soil themselves from both ends! Loving parents continue to clean and bathe their little ones
who would otherwise live in filth.
This is what sin does to our soul. It stinks and soils. Whenever
we sin, we have an mind a pleasure, desire or other supposed good. Yet what we are really choosing is a
smelly, soiled diaper.
Keep
this image in mind the next time you are tempted to sin. And if you fall, present yourself to
God to get washed up and forgiven.
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