It’s not about looking good; it’s about letting Jesus make you genuinely right with God
The property here at the Edge Christian Camp looks completely flat…until you take a hike! We’ve hiked around here several times but didn’t realize that this particular trail would be so steep down into the ravines. Amazing hike, but Jen regretted being in sandals and hiked a good ways barefoot!
She did great, and the terrain here reminds me of how we often look at life. We often see our own life and notice nothing but the low points and then looking at other people lives and see only the highlight reel on social media or how they look all put together on Sunday mornings at church.
It’s easy to overlook low points or even try to hide them, but Jesus came to help us even at our lowest.
That’s why the Bible talks about how we can be made clean and right with God. And it’s not through our own efforts.
Numbers 19:2 says, “This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:”
Verse 9 says, “And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.”
That ceremonial cleansing couldn’t actually make anyone clean, but it did make them look to God and acknowledge their own need.
Hebrews 9:13-14 explains what that ceremonial cleansing pointed to: “For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
Will you bring all of your highs and lows, your good and your bad to Jesus and let Him change you and help you grow today?
Today’s Bible reading is Numbers 19.