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The Bleaching Agent

As usual on washing day I put the white clothes into the machine first. When I took out the shirts, T-shirts, shorts, dish towels, et cetera, to hand up to dry, I groaned.

Everything that had been white when I put them in was now pink. Carefully I hunted for the reason. Hidden inside one of the T-shirts was a red sock. Knowing my family of boys didn’t enjoy wearing pink clothes, I knew there was nothing to do but change the color back to white. With so many it wouldn’t be an easy job. Throwing aside the offending red sock, I hunted for the bleach bottle.

The directions went something like this: “For nylons, Dacron, et cetera, use 2 tablespoons bleach to 1 gallon warm water.” Guessing at the amount of water that would cover the clothes, I carefully poured in the bleach and started the agitator of the washing machine. The color soon began to face. The pink got fainter and fainter and finally the clothes were white again. Yet a strange thing happened, for even though the I soaked them a long while, the water remained clear through the entire process. When I took the now-white clothes out to hang them up, I noticed the water was clear, with not a tinge of pink.

That bleach, whether it was chlorine hydrogen peroxide, produced a chemical reaction that changed the red dye into a colorless molecule. Thus both the clothes and the water were free from the red.

When we sin and truly repent, God forgives us. We cannot see the purifying agent that cleanses us, but by faith we know a change has come into our hearts. The guilt is gone. Our whole being is transformed by the peace of forgiveness.

Today Jesus is offering you forgiveness. He longs to give it to you, but, He will not force your will to accept it. Only you can choose to be free from sin. Jesus waits as a mighty bleaching agent to change your scarlet past into a white more beautiful than fresh snow. He’ll take away all the crimson dye of sin and make your life like the whitest wool. Don’t keep the heavy burden of sin. Ask for forgiveness, now.
E.E.L., and J.H.L.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: thought 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

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