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Hello! It’s finally fall! The leaves are changing color, football games are in full swing, and the weather is cooler. It’s time to break out the boots and sweaters that have been sitting in your closet for months and order a Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks. It’s also the season for Halloween and Thanksgiving. Yep, it’s the best time of year! Fall is also a great reminder that seasons in our lives change. With the changing of colors in the leaves comes the gentle reminder from our Savior that He is constant even when things around us are constantly changing. His brilliance and beauty are all around us for us to enjoy. All we have to do is look and soak it all in. I hope that you have an amazing time going to pumpkin patches, watching football games with friends, and drinking hot apple cider. Enjoy the cool weather and the low humidity. But most of all, enjoy the beauty of nature that God so lovingly gives us. Here’s to a great fall! Your Sister in Christ,
Emilee Burroughs Founder and Editor-in-Chief
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“Jesus answered, ‘Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.’” -John 13:8
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s I was reading my Bible during my quiet time one day, I came across John 13:8. I’ve read this passage before, so I was familiar with the story of Jesus washing His disciples’ feet. But for whatever reason, I had never paid attention to this particular verse. That is, I didn’t pay attention until Jesus grabbed my attention. To me, this verse means that Christ has to completely strip me of my old self—my sins, my behavior, my attitude—and wash me in the pure water of His love in order for me to be fully His. This means that I’m going to experience a painful process as He scrubs the dirt off of my body. But His love will soothe my aching skin. I loved reading C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia as a kid. In Voyage of the Dawn Treader, a character named Eustace describes how Aslan (the lion who represents Jesus in the series) washed away his old skin and transformed him from a dragon back into a boy. Here’s a passage from the book. “The lion said—but I don’t know if it spoke—‘You will have to let me undress you.’ I was afraid of his claws, I can tell you, but I was pretty nearly desperate now. So I just lay flat down on my back to let him do it. The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart. And when he began pulling the skin off, it hurt worse than anything I’ve ever felt… Well, he peeled the beastly stuff off…And there I was, as smooth and soft as a peeled switch and smaller than I had been. Then he caught hold of me—I didn’t like that much for I was very tender underneath now that I’d no skin on—and threw me into the water. It smarted like anything, but only for a moment. After that it became perfectly delicious and as soon as I started swimming and splashing I found the pain had gone from my arm. And then I saw why. I’d turn into a boy again.” Aslan had to tear away Eustace’s scaly skin in order to make him new and clean. Similarly, Jesus has to scrub and pull away all of the nasty, icky parts of us that make us dirty. Why? He has to do this because He is pure and clean. If we want to be fully His, then we, too, must be clean. What are some things that Jesus has to wash you of in order for you to be completely His? Maybe it’s a relationship that isn’t bringing Him glory. Or maybe it’s a sin that you keep hidden so deep within you that it hasn’t seen the light of day. Whatever your dirt and grime consists of, it has to be washed away by Christ. For me, it’s my own self-righteousness. I want for
people to think that I’m put-together and that I have an awesome relationship with Jesus. I want for people’s impression to be that Jesus and are like peanut butter and jelly. In reality, though, there’s dirt and grime on my body that I can’t wash away on my own. No matter how many sugar scrubs I buy from Bath & Body Works, no matter how many showers I take, it’s still there. Only Jesus can wash away my self-righteousness and make me squeaky clean. The process of being cleansed is going to be painful and uncomfortable at times. We’re going to be confronted with things that we don’t like about ourselves and with sins we’re ashamed of. But the only way for us to belong fully and unconditionally to Jesus is for Him to scrub away all of that grime and nastiness. So my sweet sister, let Jesus use a sugar scrub you can’t buy in stores. Allow Him to scrub away the things that make you dirty until you are completely washed clean.
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