"I'll be the Goo Lady!" I said this morning in a meeting with my team members in the preschool class.
As the designated Goo Lady, my role involved cleaning out the goo, gunk and seeds of a pumpkin--a pumpkin that represented our hearts full of sin or bad things like "kicking," "lying," and "punching" (according to the four-year olds).
In our lesson today, we talked about how when we ask Him, Jesus can clean out the "goo" of our hearts and make us clean inside and out...like the pumpkin appeared after my stint as the Goo Lady. It was pretty amazing to watch the kids' wide eyes light up when they saw the goo and thought about the way Jesus can clean their hearts.
When I read today's passage, it reminded me of that lesson. Take a look:
If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification
were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior,
think how much more the blood of Christ
cleans up our whole lives,
inside and out.
Through the Spirit,
Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice,
freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable,
so that we can live all out for God.
This morning with the preschoolers, the teacher asked, "How do we clean out the bad stuff or goo in our lives?"
"We reach in and take it out!" one child suggested.
"How could we do that?" the teacher replied. "I can't reach inside my heart and grab anything out, can I?"
She was right. You and I can't make our hearts goo or sin-free. That's a dead-end effort. No--we need a Great God to do that...not just a Goo Lady.
Tomorrow: Hebrews 11-13
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