This is an interesting picture I took in Madrid, Spain. We were walking around the popular Plaza Mayor when I saw this person (not sure if its male or female) near one of the entrances, sitting like a statue covered in mud. I thought it to be a clever "costume" and dropped a coin in the slot for donations.
My greatest interest in this figure is how it reminds me of the verse in Isaiah 64;6: "All our righteousness is as filthy rags." I'd say this person is covered from head to toe in filthy rags. The picture represents our natural condition before God -- covered in sin, with no hope of cleansing ourselves. In fact, the verse specifically mentions any good we might have done as being little more than filthy rags in the sight of God.
Even though the person pictured above can go home, shower, put on clean clothes, and expect to be outwardly clean and presentable, inwardly he, like us, can never cleanse himself of the sin we are born in. There is only one way we can be made truly clean.
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" 1 John 1:9. What a wonderful promise from God! What we have no hope of ever being able to cleanse, He has made a way for total cleansing. No more filthy rags in our closets -- only robes of purest white.
My granddaughter Marisa twirls around in a beautiful white costume, looking clean and lovely from head to toe, reminding us of how God clothes us in His pure, clean righteousness - from head to toe. In Jesus Calling, Sarah Young writes, "Wear My robe of righteousness with ease. I custom-made it for you, to cover you from head to toe. The price I paid for this covering was astronomical - My own blood. You could never purchase such a royal garment, no matter how hard you worked."
What a blessing to be cleansed by Almighty God Himself! Wear His garment of righteousness and salvation with thanksgiving and joy. He has given it to you to wear for eternity.
"I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For He has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness" Isaiah 61:10.
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