Sun
Its late afternoon and the sun is shining in through my window. The room glows with a brightness that only the sun could create. As I looked at the window that the sun was shining through I noticed just how dirty it was. I realised that the dirt was more noticeable because the sun was behind it. If I had drawn the curtains against the cold winter weather I would have been able to hide the mess. If I had, of course, the room would have been plunged into a dreary darkness.
It occurred to me that our lives are like my window. Dirty with sin. Yet it takes Jesus, the Son of God and the Holy Spirit shine on it, for us to see it. I had to smile at the differences between the effects of the Sun on my window and God’s Son on my life. That sun shining through my window wasn’t going to be able to clean it. It would only bake that dirty on more and make it harder to clean off. While Jesus the Son of God will clean my life of dirt and shame if I would only ask Him.
Yes, I can draw the curtains on my life and ignore the sin that is there. I can cover it up with explanations of “I’m human”, “I’m not perfect” or “I’m just busy”. But sooner or later God is going to pull those curtains back and He is going to say “Look child I want to help you see a better way a nicer room, a clearer, brighter view of the world”.
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isaiah 1:18.