Chasing Solomon

Can you remember your top five favorite showers of all time? You know, the ones in which you got out and remember saying, “That’s one of the best showers of my life!” I can remember a number of times when I have had one of those, “Wow I feel so much better now” showers.

One came after the one (and need I say the only) marathon that I ever ran. After a 26.2 mile sweaty, stinkathon, I couldn’t wait to hit the shower. You runners are familiar with that layer of salt on your skin after a race. You go to the shower and pray that it was installed with one of those metal garden power sprayers. I am pretty sure that Lava soap was invented with marathoners in mind. Each bar of Lava contains a small handful of pea gravel that really helps as an abrasive agent to break down the film of salt that is caked on your epidermis. I remember scrubbing myself as if I was the Karate Kid practicing his wax on wax off moves. But man did I feel good once I got out of that shower, clean as a whistle.

Another came after a week-long camping trip in Colorado. We rode horses in the back country, and the smells of horse, body odor, camp fire, pork and beans, bug spray, and aspen dirt would make Rambo nauseated. I have never lusted over a bar of Oil of Olay like I did when we finally made it to a shower at the end of the week. I fully understood that it was woman’s soap, but I really didn’t care. I was sick of my malodor and wanted to be squeaky clean again.

The other showers involved a 10th grade mud football game, a Katrina disaster relief day on the Coast, and a fight. I’ll spare you the details of those three.

I’m sure there are more, but those were the most memorable. Why is that? I think it is because it feels really good to be clean. Sin is like that in our lives. If we get the dirt out, then we feel really good. As long as the dirt and grime of sin is present, it’s going to be a big, stinky mess. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Feeling clean today? It doesn’t matter if you are covered head to toe in jumbo mud sin or just have a little dirt behind your ear sin. There is forgiveness if we repent. There is a Lava soap kind of clean that is available through Jesus Christ. Let Him take the dirt out of your life and His shower of love and forgiveness will wash you white as snow and it will be your number one most memorable shower.