Gettin' "Yucky"

"I got yucky!", number 7 yells, as she bolts towards me with outstretched hands of dirt. She had just zoomed down the slide only to land hands down in mud. Our back lawn takes longer than a mission trip to mexico to dry up after all the rain we get around here. Of my 7, she is the one currently holding the "Miss Clean USA" title. She  then proceeded to have me wipe her hands and then continued with this routine again and again and again...
Dirty, filthy, yucky sin. Some of us want to "wash it off" as soon as possible. While others, though they don't want to be dirty, aren't as quick to run to the sink. Perhaps we think the dirt isn't all that bad, after all, "God made dirt, and dirt don't hurt." Ever hear that one? My Mama use to say that if I dropped my lollipop in the dirt. Perhaps we think, at the end of the day, we all "wash up". Or, as long as we wash it off eventually, it doesn't matter when. If God allows you to get dirty, He also leads you to the well of living water. He has promised to wash us clean as snow. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; Isaiah 1:18
  

Psalm 51:7-10 says:

 ⁷ Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; 

   wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
⁸ Let me hear joy and gladness;
   let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
⁹ Hide your face from my sins
   and blot out all my iniquity.

 ¹⁰ Create in me a pure heart, O God,
   and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Run to Him when sin has made you dirty. Run to Him with hands stretched out and let Him wash you in His blood. ⁵And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,...Revelation 1:5
He will make you clean again and again and again...

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

May we all have the courage and strength to go to our Heavenly Father and get "washed up" regularly. Be encouraged dear friends, we are all in this together. Blessings.