Baseball season has begun....
The pitcher throwing his heart out....for the sound of the ball
hitting the catcher's glove....STRIKE!
How sweet the sound!
A new band of brothers....all together fighting for a victory....
After the hard-fought battle, there are stains....
....grass and orange dirt rubbed deep into the uniform pants...
....WHITE uniform pants....
I love the color white...but on baseball pants....
...what a labor of love to scrub out those ugly orange knees after every game. The sick, imperfect look of the dirty pants...stained and soiled...
They remind me of how imperfect and dirty I look
in my sin to my heavenly Father....
....His perfect creation....made in His image...now dirty...
...Oh how far from glory we fell...
.....I don't really grasp just how far until I gaze upon these dirty pants....
....the glory I once had, never to return without a sacrifice....
....The love GOD poured out to wash us clean again....
...through the blood of His son are my sins washed as white as snow....
Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, let's settle this," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow."
His patient and tireless effort to continually make me clean again each day....
Lamentations 3:23 "Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning."
And so, I scrub...
...and feel so grateful that though I am a dirty sinner,
my Redeemer loves me enough to wash me clean each and every day!
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