Clean or Unclean

The big piles of snow in Minnesota are melting.  They are no longer pure white but show the dirt beneath and inside.

This is how I look inside.  Sometimes I do good.  Sometimes I do bad. I tend to measure myself by how much good I do. If there were a scale, would my life be balanced equally between the good and the bad or would one side be weighed down more than the other?

Romans 3:23  For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

All includes me.  And if I stop at this Scripture, I would not see any hope for me. But, as Paul Harvey used to say, here’s the rest of the story.

Romans 4:7  Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.

I have a “covering.”  A robe that Christ puts over me.  A robe that is clean –righteous.  It represents the life He lived.  And He covers me with it if I believe in Him.

No longer does God look at my life and see all the dirt.  He only sees goodness because I am covered by the life of Jesus.

Romans 3:22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.

And I am happy inside.  Now the challenge – to look at other people the same way.