ever think about showers?
January 23, 2003
sometimes, when i'm not planning to go out of the house for the day, i don't take a shower in the morning like i normally do. maybe it's because i'm just lazy so i don't feel like it's necessary to get nice and squeaky clean if i'm not leaving the house. but ALWAYS, somewhere the in day, i'll feel really gross and i'll end up taking a shower at some point.
you ever feel that way? you might be outside playing sports, or just doing some activity and at the end of it, you just feel completely disgusted and grossed out? and the first thing that comes across your mind is that you need to take a shower! once you step into the house, you immediately proceed to pop into the shower to get clean, refreshed, etc.
well i was thinking this morning about this whole showering process. why i do it, why other people do it. the basic reason why anyone of us take showers is because we want to wash off the dirt, the yuckiness, the stench of our own body aroma (perhaps this is worse for some than others *grin*) and become clean once again. that's really why people shower. plus we have the ability to take showers whenever we please, so people may take showers to freshen up to go out to a nice classy restaurant, etc. you get the idea.
do you know people that take showers more than once a day? i do. i've known people that would take 2-3 showers everyday! people really want to be clean! or perhaps there's other reasons behind their showers, but let's assume for the moment it's for the point of cleanliness.
when i think about our almost instinctive response to take a shower after a "gruelling day", i wonder why our response to sin isn't always dealt in the same kind of mentality. if the dirt on our bodies from our daily routine bother us so much to drive us to take a shower, how much more then, should the stench, the filth of our own sin drive us to repentence at the Cross of our loving Savior? when we sin, our immediate reponse should be to ask God for His forgiveness and grace on us. for doing it our way instead of His way, for relying on our own abilities than on Him. for simply just failing to do what is pleasing in His sight. so it's not about us waiting until the end of the day to repent or just dismiss what we've done and carry on with our day. it's us realizing that the most important thing in this world us to be in fellowship with God, to be in right fellowship with Him. and once that's broken because of our sin, we need to RUN to the Cross and ask Him for mercy on us. this broken relationship should DRIVE us to Him. after all, who wants to feel dirty and unclean all day long? i sure don't!
just like we'd run to a shower after we're covered with dirt and filth, let's run to our Heavenly Father's loving arms when we've been covered with the filth and stench of our sin!
Posted by Leo Chan at January 23, 2003 10:36 AM
