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When we wash our physical bodies, we do not scratch the dirt off, but rather wash or soak it. To remove mud or filth from our bodies we may occasionally have to scrub, but not if it’s our eye or any tender part that has dirt or blood on it.
Likewise, the soul of man is a tender thing, so easily bruised or wracked that it often seeks to escape pain by either hiding or flaring up. When we come to our Maker for cleansing, He knows our souls are very tender and usually wounded as well, and He is gentle and humble of heart, and is very willing to serve our need with a light and gracious touch without harshness. It is why He bore the harshness for us.
He does not strike the sin off of us, or rip it viciously out of us, for though He truly does hate sin, He has much tender love for us and knows we are dust, and deals with us in ways that are gentle and gracious, always. In the New Testament Greek, one of the words used to describe the process is "lifting" the sin off us. He truly does desire us to be cleansed, even more than we ourselves desire it, and He assures us that since we ask for it according to His will, He will surely do it for us quite gladly.
We need never fear to come to our Lord Jesus Christ to cleanse us from sin, nor is there need to doubt Him. No matter what we feel like, we may set our hearts at rest because the God who does not break His word has said He will do it, and as Isaiah relates God’s own words to us, “What I have said… that will I do.†(Isa 46:11) Amen. It has been done.
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