181How to Get Rid of Guilt
This word "throughly" also means repeatedly. In the first chapter of I John a wonderful assurance is given. We know that if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to keep on cleansing us from all iniquity. He does it repeatedly. "Wash me throughly" has a literal transla– tion from the Hebrew as "multiply to wash me." In other words, constantly, keep it up. The Psalmist begins with iniquity. This might be as the thoughts which go through our minds, while sin might be looked at as the very deed itself. We need cleansing for both. Often we only think evil thoughts, yet they're often far worse than the actual deeds committed by others. Notice the dif– ferent words in this Psalm which are used to designate our stepping aside from the love of God. We find "transgressions" in verse one, "iniquity and sin" in verse two, "evil" in verse four and they are repeated again in verses three, five, nine and fourteen. No matter how dark the pic– ture, if we allow God to cleanse our hearts, using the search– light of His Word, He'll carefully make certain that all sin, every vestige of it, is removed. In James I :23 and verses following, we're told that many of us are just like a man who will go to his mirror, look at himself, and then go away forgetting all of the things wrong with him. Certainly none of us can see the sins of omission, much less, sometimes because of a seared conscience, the sins of commission. This is why we so desperately need the Holy Spirit.
True Cleansing Comes Only Through The Blood Of Christ
It is only through the power of the blood of Christ that we can be cleansed from our sins. David earnestly petitions, "Wash me throughly." God will not do the job half-way. I saw an interesting commercial advertised on television for a product called "Grease Eraser." Suppose those annoying
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