"...To The Love of God"

"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." (Psalms 51:7) You do know that God loves you, don't you? He loves you so much, He will do whatever it takes to make you clean and to free you from your sins. When it comes to "Spiritual Cleansing", it is the conduit we need to experience the fullness of God's love for us; He knows that, and that is way He wants to make us clean, so that we can have the kind of relationship with Him that really matters. The sixth verse was about man's part in this cleaning process, which is to be totally honest with God, and to act upon what God says, which is really the beginning of wisdom; this seventh verse is all about God's part, because only God can make us clean! If you think about Jesus cleaning the feet of the disciples in that upper room, He was not only demonstrating what it means to be a servant, but He was illustrating the washing away of our sins, on a daily basis. Yes, I said on a daily basis, meaning every day! Every day I step in something (or don't step out), that requires a foot washing; every day I need to ask God for His forgiveness; and every day, He loves to forgive me! We need to understand God's heart for us is to have us love Him; His love for us demands our love, yet He does not demand it, otherwise He would not have given us free will. It is however a commandment; which if you stop and consider what His commandments mean, they are only there for our good; in other words, it is good for us to love God! There is absolutely nothing better for us than to love God, and nothing matters more towards our eternal existence! This word "purge" that is used is a very interesting word to use, because it actually mean 'sin' more than it does 'purify'; as a matter of fact, this same word is used over ten times more for 'sin' than it is for 'purify'. "Hyssop" is the type of plant used for medical and spiritual healing, yet when used or applied by man, it has only a limited application; but when applied by God, His application is complete and never misses reaching the goal; every little smudge, every little stain, God can totally remove. We don't see that happening, yet we can feel it in our spiritual relationship with God, and in our love for Him... "And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these." (Mark 12:28-31)