Routines

Psalms 51:2 (KJV) Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

(Proverbs 21 also read)

I have been up barely an hour and I have already washed my hands several times.  We do it without thinking, it’s just a reaction.  It is a healthy habit.  Why?

During the panic over Covid one of the big issues we were told to do is wash your hands.  Why were we told to wash her hands?  Two reasons really.  The first is because it’s a good thing to do.  Soap and water do not disinfect, but what they do is form a fluid which lifts the bacteria off your hands and flushes them down the drain.  This keeps them from having an opportunity to penetrate your body as you touch your eyes and so forth.

The second reason was really probably the most important, we weren’t doing it.  Even during all of the fear and panic, it was rather amusing to watch macho young men “wash” their hands.  They would turn on the water, swing their hands through the flow once and shake off any excess water that happen to have stuck to their skin.  If they were especially attentive, they might even take a paper towel and dry their hands.  If they were truly macho, they would just wipe them on their pants and walk out the door.

Yes, people need to be taught to wash.  In this particular spot and later on in the chapter, it’s a reminder I will need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.  That’s a bit of spiritualizing. The perfect man of God does not come along for another 800 years or so.  It might even not be what David was talking about.  But I think it’s what the Holy Spirit is telling us

So?  If you have never been washed in the blood, this is a good time.  Also, as David shows in this Psalm, it’s a good practice to be regularly confessing our failures and our sins and asking God to forgive and restore.  Wash.