Tuesday’s Musings: The Cleansing Power of Water

Ephesians 5:25-27  For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.  He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.

The other day my morning walk took me by the ball field complex. It had rained and there were many puddles around the fields.  I observed a large flock of robins on the ground. Several were sitting right in the middle of the pools of water – just sitting there.  I thought, even the birds know the importance of the cleansing power of water. We use water in baptism to symbolize cleansing from sin. In the Holy Land, our group did a “remember your baptism” ceremony at the Jordan River. What if whenever we took a bath or shower we stopped and asked God to cleanse us of all impure thoughts, to wash away the residue for our failings of the past day and to purify us as Christ was pure. Just a thought.

Holy Lord, life seems to be a cycle of sin and repentance, successes and  failures.  Keep pointing us in the right direction, Lord.  We need you every day. In Christ’s name. Amen.