Did you ever try to clean up an oil spot in the carpet?  You clean it one day and return the next to find it back!  Unless you use some kind of serious degreaser it will keep coming back.  But even then you risk doing damage to the carpet.

If we lived in a darkened room with black carpet we never notice such a stain.  But let this happen on a white carpet near a window and who can avoid it?  The owner of that house will either be ashamed of the spot or do everything he can to clean it.  The wise owner will call in the professional.

So it is with the wicked, so it is with the redeemed.  For the wicked it is like they live in a darkened room with dark flooring and walls.  They do not recognize the depravity of their situation.  They cannot perceive their filth.

They laugh at the righteous who reel back in horror when sin is found within them.  ” what’s the big deal”, the wicked ask.  There is no light in their world to expose their own sin.  It is impossible for them to understand.

But let the Lord Jesus come to them and they too will begin to reel back at the horror of their sin.  They too will be amazed when they witness a cleaning only to see the blemish rise again.  They too will continue in a begging  of the Lord that they might receive a thorough cleaning.

But take warning you un-godly people.  You sinners take heed!   Peter the Apostle has spoken what is true, ” if it is hard for the righteous to be saved what will become of the ungodly and the sinner”.

By His Grace