Frank Passamonte is a carpet cleaner who attends our church. I call him the stain master. He has a bag full of tricks that he uses when knuckleheads like me smear mustard on the couch or spill grapejuice on the carpet. Frank is the guy who comes to the rescue before my wife gets home. Frank is an expert. No stain intimidates him. When he works his magic he can get most stains out completely and all stains at least 95%.
Frank tells me that the toughest stain is mustard. He has a long, involved process for getting that pesky condiment out.
Back in Bible times the toughest stain came from a crimson dye that was used on clothing. When that dye was used the color was set and it was impossible to make white. That stain was deeply imbedded.
All of us have sins that are deeply imbedded and ingrained in our souls: addictions, bad attitudes, habitual ways of living. Some of us are gossip-a-holics or negativity-a-holics, or stuff-a-holics. These sins are set in. We have lived with them along time. We might delude ourselves into thinking that these sinful practices are part of our personality, just the way we are.
It's not the way we are. We were created to live better than that. In Isaiah 1.18 God says that no stain is impossible for Him to cleanse; no sin is too deep to purify. The grand truth is that "though our sins may be as scarlet, God can cleanse us whiter than snow."
God is a better stain master than Frank Passamonte. And he can cleanse even you.
Check out http://youtube.com/watch?v=3Oj_meOoDpY to see a video of how our local stain master gets mustard out of carpet.
What deep sins do you struggle with?
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