Jiggles Needs a Bath

From: Messages of God's Love: 2010

Jiggles is a small dog who works and plays on our farm. She is also our pet.

One summer evening when I was fixing supper, there was a “click, click” on the patio door. Jiggles was tapping on the glass door with her toenails. I knew what she was saying: “I want in, please!” I was busy, so I didn’t open the door right away. But Jiggles really wanted in, so she knocked again by jumping up against the glass, bumping it with all four feet at once—ka-thump, ka-thump—”Hey, open up ... I want in!”

Stop for a minute and listen. Do you hear someone knocking on the door of your heart? It’s Jesus knocking! He tells us in Revelation 3:20²⁰Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:20), “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.” He wants you to let Him in. He loves you very much and wants to wash your sins away so He can have fellowship with you and then take you to live with Him in heaven. Will you open the door of your heart and let Him come in?

I went to open the door, but what I saw was a very, very dirty Jiggles who had been in some very dirty place. I told her, “No way are you coming in the house! You are as dirty as a pig! You need a bath first.” Jiggles likes to sit in my chair and share it with me, and sometimes she hops up on the bed. If I let her come in the way she was, in no time everything would be dirty!

In John 14:2²In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. (John 14:2) God tells us that He has a house in heaven, but in Revelation 21:27²⁷And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. (Revelation 21:27) He tells us that nothing can enter His house that would spoil it—no dirty sins. We must have our sins washed away before we can enter His home. And only one thing can wash us clean— “The blood of Jesus Christ [God’s] Son [cleanses] 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)).

Jiggles needed a bath, and only after she was scrubbed clean was she welcomed into the house. And if you will come to Jesus and let Him wash you clean from all your sins, He will welcome you with open arms into His home in heaven when your life here on earth is over.

MEMORY VERSE: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.” Revelation 3:20²⁰Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:20)

ML-08/08/2010

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