How Clean Are You—Really?
Do you ever stop and ask yourself: Do I feel clean?
Not just outwardly—but deep down, in your soul?
For many of us, the feeling of spiritual cleanness is tied to behavior. When we’re “doing well”—praying, avoiding sin, helping others—we feel good, maybe even righteous. But that kind of cleanness is temporary. Sooner or later, we mess up. We get angry. We get selfish. We fall short. And just like that, the clean feeling fades.
Others take a more theological view. They know—on an intellectual level—that they’re clean because of what Jesus did on the cross. His death paid for their sin, so they’re positionally righteous before God. And that’s absolutely true. But knowing you’re clean in theory doesn’t always make you feel clean in practice.
Even in Jesus’ day, people wrestled with this. The Pharisees obsessed over staying outwardly pure. They avoided anything—or anyone—that might defile them. But Jesus called them out. He said, “It’s not what goes into you that makes you unclean—it’s w...
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