Blood Bath

        Sometimes we just feel grungy don’t we? Maybe we aren’t really dirty—we just feel like it. What do we do? We take a bath or shower, both of which we consider a feel good thing. After a nice shower or bath we feel clean, content, and happy to feel clean.

Doing life sometimes makes us feel grungy as well. Because of our brokenness, some of the things we do out of habit, the sin in our lives, or just the stuff we have to deal with we feel unclean inside don’t we? None of us are immune to that. It’s heart dirt that is making us feel unclean, a grunginess of our soul. Jumping into the shower or bath isn’t going to change that one bit.

The only means of cleaning heart dirt or soul grunge is a blood bath. It’s the best bath available for that type of cleansing. It doesn’t take any water and we don’t have to dry off (except possibly our tears), and we don’t have to change clothes.

A blood bath is when we take the time to stop, reflect on our present conditions, and focus on the magnitude of what Christ did us. He died for us. It was His blood that washed away our sins, and still does. It’s a blood bath we commemorate when we take communion. But we don’t have to wait until communion to take our bath. We can do that at any time that our grungy soul and dirty heart requires a bath.

Bottom Line Thought: Think of it this way—the blood baths you take are the best baths you will ever take. They will renew you like none other.