Wash Me Thoroughly

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 12, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 31.

Wash Me Thoroughly.

THE Hebrew word here used by David to express heart-cleansing, is not employed in any superficial sense. It refers to a washing that touches the inner substance, not the mere outward surface. There is another Hebrew word that indicates this latter office.

We all need to offer this prayer of David. Our hearts are full of vanity, selfishness, and secret pride. That which only gives us a fair exterior, and does not change the innermost springs of the heart, is sadly deficient. All that may be done, and leave the cause of our soul's unrest still untouched. The cleansing blood of Christ is all-sufficient because it goes down to the deepest defects of the soul, and removes the secret sin itself. O that we may apprehend our lost condition, and avail ourselves of its purifying and healing power.—Sel.