A Certainty above all Certainties

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. (1 Timothy 1:15)

I don’t spend a lot of time

thinking about my sins.

To do so would be counter-productive

and send me easily to despair.

My baby slaughtered

in the abortion chamber.

Young women I turned

into whores and adulteresses.

Lies I told to gain advantage.

Thefts I committed because I could.

And those were the least of the sins

I’ve sinned in my life;

Sins which reenter my memory,

from time to time.

As at this time.

No, I do not spend a lot of time

thinking about my sins.

But when I do,

I remember that one certainty

above all glorious certainties

that erases my fear of judgment

because that certainty has certainly
wiped away

all of my stains.

What can wash away my sins?

Even the butchering

of my baby?

Nothing –
no, nothing but

the blood of Jesus.

What can make me whole again?

Make me a new creation?

Nothing –
no, nothing but

the blood of Jesus.

Yes, yes, how precious,

yes, yes, how marvelous,

yes, oh, yes how wondrous

the flow of soul-cleansing blood

from Christ’s wounds

that makes our darkness,

our deepest darkness,

our most vile darkness,

pure as snow.

Oh most holy,

most righteous and

eternal God,

who judges sin

and removes the impure,

the unclean,

the ungodly sinner

from Your Presence . . .

Thank you

for forgiveness.

Thank you

for reconciliation.

Thank you,

My God, I thank you,

for the blood of Jesus.