Gleaming White

It is simply the little things sometimes, you know?
If you are a friend of mine, you already know of my obsession with PineSol. I LOVE it! I was down on my hands and knees cleaning my kitchen floor last night with it. The mop is ok occasionally, but I find I get the floor much cleaner when I just do it by hand (a little of my Mammaw coming out in me, I suppose). Then I could smell that glorious smell the rest of the night!
I detest cleaning bathrooms, but I must say after all that hard work scrubbing on a tub with soap scum and days worth of showers clinging to the sides, it is worth it. To look down on a gleaming white tub and know it was your elbow grease that got it clean brings some level of satisfaction to my day.
I must confess as I was scrubbing with all my might, I was thinking how similar this is to our lives as Christians. We fill our thoughts, words and days with grime from the world. An unkind word here, road rage, a temperamental child (and subsequent tantrum by a parent in response), a lost opportunity to minister there and our lives look like the griminess of my tub. PRAISE GOD! He has washed us clean! HE (Jesus) makes us whiter than snow. No amount of dial soap scum can defeat his redemptive power in our lives.
I am so blessed to be loved by a magnificent Savior who can wash away my sins. It reminded me of a hymn/chorus we sing at church:

What can wash away my sins?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
OH, precious is the flow,
That makes me white as snow.
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!

I pray your day will be filled with HIS presence and you can see the power of HIS work alive throughout your day!
Carrie Beth