Betty's Black Hands

From: Messages of God's Love: 1939

O! Betty! look at your hands, black! black! black! You have been playing with the pots and kettles. Now you must get soap and water and wash those little black hands.

How fortunate for our little girl, and for us too, that we have something to remove the stains and dirt we get on our hands and faces. But do you know there is stain that nothing on earth can remove? That is the stain of sin.

Long, long ago, there was a man named Job who realized he needed to be cleansed from the stain of sin, and he knew he could not cleanse himself for he said,

“If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; yet shalt Thou (God) plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.” Job 9:30,31³⁰If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; ³¹Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. (Job 9:30‑31).

And we read also,

“For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before Me, saith the Lord God.” Jeremiah 2:22²²For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God. (Jeremiah 2:22).

Now we look at another verse,

“THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST HIS SON CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN.” 1 John 1:7⁷But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7).

We see what can cleanse away the stain of sin for all who put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and His precious blood. shed on Calvary’s cross.

So you see all our efforts to remove the stain of sin are useless and vain.

“Without the shedding of blood is no remission.” Hebrews 9:22²²And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. (Hebrews 9:22).

Did you ever hear the “snow prayer”? King David said,

“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” Psa. 51:7⁷Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. (Psalm 51:7).

Have you been washed in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ?

ML 10/29/1939