Bath Time

Have you ever had bath time battles with a child?  I have.  I remember the “cleaning behind the ears” battle I had with one of my sons.  But after finally giving in, I discovered he was right - cleaning behind the ears was not really all that bad!

The people of heaven are all people who realize they were sin stained and in need of a Spiritual bath.  They all came to a place where they understood their need to be thoroughly washed.  Think about John in his island prison.  I do not suppose Patmos Penitentiary had a regular laundry service.  John was probably filthy and wearing very dirty clothes, but in his rapturous vision of heaven, he sees the people of God adorned in brilliant white robes, pure and clean from head to toe.  These robes and their cleanliness represents purity.  There is not  a hint of stain on these people.  They are thoroughly washed, clean, glistening.

This is a picture of what Christ has done for His people.  We are stained and soiled with the filth of sin and disease because we are a fallen people in a fallen world.  Sinful thoughts and deeds create great stains.  As we look upon our sin stained selves we are made to understand that we do not belong in the presence of God.  As we see ourselves as we actually are because of sin, we wonder,   how would we ever dare to think that we may enter into the presence of God like this?  Well, if you are in Christ, you need not be so concerned, Revelation 7:14 lets us in on the remedy:  “They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”