“And no unclean thing can enter into his kingdom; therefore nothing
entereth into his rest save it be those who have washed their garments in my
blood, because of their faith, and the repentance of all their sins, and their
faithfulness unto the end.” (3 Nephi 27:19)
How humbling. We are all living in this pig pen and yet to stand
before the king we have to be clean, spot, by spot, by spot, by spot. Woops,
you missed a spot.
In FHE we talked
about judging others and maybe that is why this hits me this way this morning.
It is so easy to see other’s sins and miss our own. The good news is that there
is plenty of cleaning opportunities. As a child this scriptural quote of being “washed
in the blood” seemed contradictory. In the old days women used to but bluing in
their rinse water to whiten clothes. Being washed in the blood is not like
that. It’s more like owning the spot.
“Oh, there is a big glob of mud on me! Lord, do you have a
drop of blood that paid for this glob? I’ve been washing it with water and it’s
just getting bigger and bigger. What am I going to do?”
“Yes, my child. Here it is. I am so glad to get rid of that
one. ”
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