All over the world people are becoming more and more concerned with finding a solution to global environmental pollution, and rightly so. However, as important as it is, this posting is not intended as a means of discussing environmental pollution, but rather another vital kind of global pollution ~ sin. The global pollution of the heart.
Interestingly, my wife and I are CFCs [Crusaders For Christ]. From the moment we entered TSA training college in 1993 it became a standard joke for the second year session of cadets (and many others since!) to point out that we were "harmful to the environment". We always took it as a compliment for we were, and are, confident that as Crusaders For Christ we are called to minister healing, wholeness and hope to people in this sin-polluted world. And if to minister this message in such a world means we are considered "harmful" to the status quo then so be it. We are privileged to stand for Christ, here and now.
Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He is the righteous One who justifies. By His merit He forgives all our sins. By His righteousness He clothes us. He is indeed the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (ref. John 1:29). He has taken away all our sins ~ past, present and future ~ and provided complete cleansing.
Here's a noteworthy quote from tonight's choir devotions ~ "God is the solution to sin's pollution".
Zechariah 3:5 (NIV) ~ "See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put rich garments on you."
