Feeling Dirty? In Christ, You Are Always Being Cleansed

If you feel dirty, bad, guilty, condemned, even if you have thought, said, or done something wrong, do not live in those negative feelings.
First of all, remember what you are freed from and what you have become in Christ:

"Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." (Romans 8:1, New American Standard Bible)

and

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Corinthians 5: 21)

In this verse, pay close attention to the past tense "he hath made" -- for the believer, it is a done deal. We are the righteousness of God in Christ. If you meditate on it only in the present tense, perhaps you may still believe that you have to speak it thoroughly to your mind. Of course, that is not the case at all.

Meditate on the following truths, and let the Word of God wash you clean (John 15:3):

"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. " (Hebrews 8: 12)

Whether you were afraid, unhappy, lost your temper, or had a bad memory of something that you did or someone else did to you, it has all been paid for at the Cross. You do not have to do anything about it!

Now, regarding the purity, the cleansing which we have received through Christ, are you aware that His blood still cleanses you?

"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." (1 John 1: 7)

Every believer is a son of light (1 Thessalonians 5: 5), a child of light (Ephesians), and we are in Christ, who is our light (John 8: 12).

This light is in every believer, too, our hope -- confident expectation of good -- of glory (Colossians 1: 27).

We are in Christ, our Light and our Propitiation from all sins: past, present, future. In His Light, His blood cleanses -- now, presently, and forever -- from all unrighteousness! If we feel down and out, guilty and deserving punishment, just let the Word of God remind you that you are already made righteous and cleansed forevermore from all sin.