Blood That Truly Cleanses
The cleansing reaches the depths, and the whole life runs clear.
Devotional Credit: His Victorious Indwelling, compiled by Nick Harrison, drawing from C. C. Crowston and W. H. Griffith Thomas
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Hebrews says we see Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death by the grace of God for everyone. Today’s page in His Victorious Indwelling lifts that truth out of the familiar and sets it right in our hands. C. C. Crowston reminds us that no river of animal blood ever removed a single stain of sin. Only the blood of Jesus reaches that deep and that far. It does not mask the stain. It removes it at the root.
Nick Harrison has gathered voices that point to the same center. The cross of Jesus anchors God’s plan for His people and for creation itself. What was impossible by effort is finished by the Lamb of God. The stain of guilt is not managed. It is taken away. The power of sin is not negotiated with. It is broken. One day even the presence of sin will be gone from God’s renewed world.
W. H. Griffith Thomas gives a simple timeline that helps us breathe easy in grace. We can say, I was saved from sin’s penalty. We can say, I am being saved from sin’s power. We can say, I will be saved from sin’s presence. That is not a call to try harder. It is an invitation to trust Jesus in the present tense, because His blood is effective and His indwelling life is active.
As a fellow traveler, I am grateful for how clear this is. The cross is not only our doorway into the family, it is our daily foundation. We walk in the light of a finished cleansing, and we rely on the Holy Spirit to work out what Jesus has already won. Our part is to yield and trust. His part is to express the life of the risen Christ through us in ordinary moments.
Journal Entry – Voice of the Holy Spirit Through Scripture
I point your eyes to Jesus who tasted death by the grace of God for all. In Him you have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. I have washed you, sanctified you, and justified you in the name of the Lord Jesus and by My Spirit. There is now no condemnation for you, for the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
You were crucified with Christ, and you live, yet not you, but Christ lives in you. Consider yourself dead to sin and alive to God in Him. Present your body to Me as one brought from death to life. I write My laws on your heart, and I remember your sins no more. Draw near with a true heart in full assurance, having your heart sprinkled clean from an evil conscience.
As you walk today, I work in you to will and to do for My good pleasure. I always live to intercede for you. I lead you to put off the old ways and to put on the new self, created after My likeness in true righteousness and holiness. I reconcile all things in the Son, making peace by the blood of His cross, and I will complete what I began in you until the day you see Jesus face to face.
Fix your hope on the grace that is being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. The sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed. Death has been swallowed up in victory. Therefore be steadfast, immovable, abounding in the work that flows from union with the Lord, for in the Lord your labor is not empty.
Real-Life Analogy
Think about a favorite white shirt that picked up a stubborn coffee stain. You can rinse it and rub it, but the mark lingers. Then you apply a real stain remover, work it in, and the deep brown releases. The water runs clear, and the fabric is restored. The blood of Jesus is not a cover up. It reaches what you cannot reach, and it makes clean at the fiber level. From that clean place, life changes tone.
Bring this into a simple moment. When an old memory tries to accuse you, whisper from your heart, Lord, I trust You because Your blood has truly cleansed me, let Your life rise in me right now and move me to speak and act as one already washed. That is not self talk. That is yielding to the Holy Spirit who indwells you, confident that Jesus will express His purity and kindness through you in the next conversation or decision.
Prayer of Confidence
Father, thank You that Jesus tasted death for me and for all, and that His blood has removed my guilt completely. Thank You that in Your Son I am forgiven, cleansed, and brought near. I gladly stand in no condemnation. I receive the present working of Your Spirit who writes Your ways on my heart and empowers holy love. I rest in the promise that You will finish what You began, and I rejoice that even today my ordinary life can display the victory of the cross and the life of the risen Lord.
Scripture References for the Voice of the Holy Spirit Through Scripture Section
Hebrews 2:9; Ephesians 1:7; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Romans 8:1–4; Galatians 2:20; Romans 6:4–13; Hebrews 10:14–22; Philippians 2:13; Hebrews 7:25; Ephesians 4:22–24; Colossians 1:20–22; Philippians 1:6; 1 Peter 1:13; Romans 8:18–23; 1 Corinthians 15:20–28, 54–58; Revelation 21:1–5; John 1:29; Romans 5:6–11; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:1–2; Titus 2:11–14; Colossians 2:13–15; Ephesians 2:5–7; Jude 24–25; 1 Corinthians 1:30