Broken Law, pee stained, and cleansing

This morning, Brooke and I woke up and walked down the hallway to wake up Chulo, our dog. As soon as the door opened, we smelled the result of Chulo breaking the law of the quiet time room; he peed. I've told him several times (of course, he doesn't know what I'm saying), that peeing is for the backyard. This is the first time in several months that he has had an accident. He is 2 years old now and is house trained (or he likes to convince his mom of that.) Well, he peed on himself, in his sleep, on himself, and now he is outside waiting for a bath. It's a good thing that my furniture in that room was donated by my best friend Jonathan. It is old. Chulo is wearing the stain of his decision right now. He needs to be cleansed. He reaks.

Oh friend, we can learn from this. All of us, in one way or another, have broken God's law. We have sinned. The Word tells us that (Romans 3:23) we have fallen short of His glory. According to James 2:10, one broken law consequences in all of the law being broken. We need to be cleansed. We need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb of God (John 1:29, 1 Cor 6:11). We need His grace, His cleansing (Ephesians 1:7). We need to be made right (Romans 5:1). We can learn alot from the accidents of animals. I believe, as D.L. Moody preached long ago, that most sermons are preached daily by the shoes of those that walk.

When Brooke gets home from her run, we are going to wash our dog. We are going to restore him to the house and allow him to enter in. Are you washed in the blood?

I close with this old, but powerful hymn

Are you Washed in the Blood? 1878, by Elisha Hoffman


Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing pow’r?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Are you washed in the blood,
In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Are you walking daily by the Savior’s side?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Do you rest each moment in the Crucified?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

When the Bridegroom cometh will your robes be white?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Will your soul be ready for the mansions bright,
And be washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin,
And be washed in the blood of the Lamb;
There’s a fountain flowing for the soul unclean,
Oh, be washed in the blood of the Lamb!