How To Get Clean

There is something that many of us fail to recognize until years of pain and sorrow have shown the reality of what we should have done all along. There is a lie that many, myself included, have fallen prey to over the years which is, “You can’t go to God until you have dealt with your sin.”

This lie plagues the non-believer and the believer in different ways. Today, I want to dive in and discuss how this misinformation has caused the believer’s progress with their spiritual walk to be entangled.

As a believer sooner or later you will come to a realization that you blew it. That you made a hard core stupid decision, crossed the line, and sinned. At that moment you will have two choices. One, attempt to fix your own sin prior to coming to Christ and making amends, or two you will run to the Lord and allow Him to help you. Regrettably, this decision is even more deceptive for those of us who were saved at an early age. We have come accustomed to the comfortable church environment around us and have slowly sank into complacency. Where the raw, very real, and powerful presence of the Lord in our life has been replaced with the mediocracy within the laid back atmosphere.

This is when that lie is most dangerous. The heart is still filled with the Holy Spirit so when we mess up the conviction is immediate, but instead of running to the Lord for His help we say things like, “I got to do better” or “Why did I make that mistake again.” We never return to the Lord, instead we grow further apart from Him with the idea that we cannot come closer until we fix ourselves.

This belief is contrary to scripture and it needs to be purged from our mind and action. We fail to remember that Jesus Christ is the one who cleanse us from all unrighteousness, “He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,” Titus 3:5. It is by being in His presence we are transformed, just look at Moses.

“Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him. 30 So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them. 32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them as commandments all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. 34 But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded. 35 And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him”

 Exodus 34:29-35.

To be healed there is no fixing ourselves then coming to Christ, if this were so we could fix our own sin and gain salvation on our own accord. We need Christ to clean us, to identify the sin in our life and erase it. This can only happen if we are with Him, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin,” 1st John 1:7. So remember this, when you find yourself making a mistake and sinning; the choice is before you, run to Jesus and ask Him to forgive you and clean you once again. If you are already saved this is not about salvation, but rather restoration. This is about making our relationship as close as possible so that He can work His wonders in our life.

If you are a non-believer the answer is the same, you need Jesus to fix what you have done. So run to Jesus Christ, ask Him to forgive you of your sin, and to come into your life.

Both the non-believer and the believer need to remember that Christ is the power behind the healing, not us. He saves and restores. He gathers and He transforms us, all we need to do is be in His presence and allow Him to do what He says He will. Remember Psalm 51:7, “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” The psalmist is identifying that they cannot do any of this themselves, it is God who does. Jesus is the answer no matter where we are in our life. From being a non-believer to a believer for decades, we need Jesus Christ all the same. 

 Hold until relieved, our Blessed Hope is coming,

JL