Shower Fresh

Sometimes taking a shower may seem like a chore that you just don’t feel like doing. Once you are washed and clean, you feel refreshed and grateful you did it. The same goes for the Word of God. Sometimes reading the Bible may seem like a chore but once you do it, you feel refreshed and are grateful you did. Reading the Word of God cleanses you. It takes away the dirt and filth of the world that gets stuck to you.

Ephesians 5:26, … having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.

1 Corinthians 6:11, And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.  See also Psalm 51:2.

John 15:3, You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

Acts 22:16, And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.

Ezekiel 36:25, I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.

Titus 3:5, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

John 3:5, Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

When you get baptized, make sure you do a full immersion under the water and not just sprinkled as some people do with babies. Doing so is symbolic of going down and dying to self and then rising up to new life, fully cleansed from the sin and the dirt of this world. For your eternal spirit has united with God's and has been reborn into a new life. If you die before you get baptized, it's not a salvation issue. It's symbolic gestor that pleases God.

Take the time to read the Word, try one chapter a day. Most are not that long. Clean yourself every day with the Word of God. Jesus is described as the Word of God. To get to know Jesus you need to know the Word. If you know the Bible, you will not be pulled into false doctrines. There are many out there! People are dying every day who have not been cleansed of their sins because they believed the lies of man, instead of the truth of God's Word.

Jeremiah 17:5, Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.  Don’t blindly trust in your priest, pastor, church, Mom, Dad, or anyone else for your salvation. They could be wrong, and you would pay a high price if they are. Get it straight from the Word of God.

John 17:17, Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.