Whitewashing

When I was growing up, my Granny Whitely lived next door to us in a trailer.  No, it wasn’t a mobile home it was a trailer - eight feet wide and thirty-five feet long.  Every spring, she would mix up some slaked lime, whiting, and water, and have me white-wash the beech tree trunks white.  I have no idea why.  Maybe there was a reason, but she never told me, I just did it.  I had to do it every spring because whitewashing didn’t last.  It would look nice for a few weeks, but spring rains would soon wash it away.  In the Old Testament, the priests would offer sacrifices for the people, but would have to do it again the next year.  The animal sacrifices only atoned for their sins for one more year.  But the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary was different.  “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” John 1:29  Jesus was God’s perfect sacrifice for all of us.  He paid for our sins once and for all.  “But this man, (Jesus) after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God.” Hebrews 10:12  Through Jesus Christ, our sins are paid for - forever!