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Cover art: Psalm 51 by Veronica McDonald.
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Note from the Editor
Psalm 51 by Veronica McDonald.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow […]
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me. – Psalm 51: 7, 10 (ESV)
Most times as an adult, feeling pure and burdenless seems like an impossible thing. In fact, I would be so bold as to say it is impossible. As much as I wish we could, we can’t erase the mistakes we’ve made in the past, and we can’t remove images, songs, painful memories, movies, hurtful words, etc., implanted within the psyches of our broken minds. But, as God often reminds me, nothing is impossible with Him.1 It sounds so cliché, but the truth and power of this statement are easy to overlook. How can anything be impossible for the eternal, omnipotent Being who created everything — from the universe, laws of physics, and objective morality, to my fingernails and the love I feel in my heart? This is the God who says He knit us together in our mothers’ wombs,2 who says He can forgive us for our sins,3 who can purify us by making us be born again4 as new creatures with a clean slate.5 Not only that, He says He will give us Himself, to guide us, comfort us, and convict us, so that we never have to do this life alone.6 Could anything be impossible for God? (And before your mind starts wandering into logical impossibilities, like creating a square circle, stay with me on where I’m going here…). When we seek God, He reveals Himself to us, and when that happens, He fills every dark and broken place inside of us with His healing light, and he washes away the crimson stain on our souls. He makes us new. He takes away our burdens. And after He purifies us from all sin, He begins the sanctifying journey to make us more like Him. To roughly paraphrase Paul and Isaiah, God’s cleansing love calls us to walk in the newness of life: to be fully His, to be molded by Him, and to be used for His good purposes.7
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