Getting Our Change of Clothes
Washing my clothes is one of my weekly chores now. I am getting pretty good at it, but it is still a challenge to know how to get everything as clean as possible. This is especially true when I get my clothes very dirty, or when they get stains from blood and other things. Then, I have to use some special detergents and do it in the right way to really get them clean. In a spiritual sense that is what happens to all of us when we get saved. The Lord used this analogy with the high priest, Jeshua, in the time of Zechariah the prophet. Zechariah wrote in symbolic language in a lot of what God showed him. (Zechariah 3:3) "Jeshua's clothing was filthy as he stood before the angel. So the angel said to the others standing there, 'Take off his filthy clothes.' And turning to Jeshua he said, ' See, I have taken away your sins, and now I am giving you these fine new clothes.'" Let's take a few minutes to understand these symbols for our own lives. The Bible i...