Stain Removing 101

I believe most of us have seen the Dynamo advertisement with the man in the white lab coat teaching us how to remove stains on clothes. At least some of us would have noticed the tall shelves stacked with bottles and bottles of detergent, each with their special “stain removing formula”. It seems that we have a fixation with stain removing and stains are definitely not removed with a wand in hand and sparkles in the air. Yet the Bible tells us that Jesus blood has washed us whiter than snow, restoring people who are full of the stain of sin to the pure whiteness of the robe of righteousness. Perhaps we could get a glimpse of how much it took for Jesus to take away our sins and give us righteousness when we think about how difficult it is for us to remove stains in everyday life.

Think about it, you could spill curry on your shirt unknowingly during lunch, brush past a sweaty man on the way back to class, sit on a mud pool while playing soccer. Because of that we have two to three changes of clothes in a day, making 730 changes of clothes in a year and 65,700 changes of clothes in 90 years. Think about how much it takes to wash that amount of clothes all in one time and make it as clean as it was before you wore it. It’ll take many washing machines, many days or perhaps some would say many mothers. On the cross, Jesus was punished for every single one of our sins. Can we even begin to imagine the intensity of the punishment or the agony of having His Father turn His back on Him? When you get that into perspective, you get the sheer magnitude of His love for us that restores us from the stain of sin to the whiteness of righteousness. Do not let the words “Jesus loves me” become just like anything you say. Feel the Father affirming, Jesus embracing and the Holy Spirit convicting when you say, “Jesus loves me.”

Selene Yap