Like me, I am sure you have a few scars that you see each day and remember how and where you got them. Naturally, some are more obvious than others and some only you know where they are.

As for me, I have a scar on the back of my left hand; this was a result of installing an electric fuel pump on a street machine I was building. I also have two on my left index finger from cleaning fish and one on the little finger from a crab bite.

Then there is a scar on my right wrist from a work accident. Also, there is a scar on my right thumb from the time I worked as a pin setter in a bowling alley. There is also a scar from a burn on my right wrist.

On my left ankle, there is one from a bicycle accident, and I have scars on both knees from a motorcycle accident. I have a scar on my upper lip and one on my chin from a car accident and one above my left eyebrow from a rock fight as a kid.

As I said, I am sure we all have a few scars, and we remember the how, when and why we have them. Our spiritual body is like that, let me explain.

As a non-Christian, we all have things in our past that we can recall and might even think to yourself why did I do that or say that. It was just dumb and stupid of me. Sin is like that.

Then as a Christian, a child of God, we can look back and remember and recall if we chose to, things we have said and done that are not in keeping with God’s will for us.

Now with the idea of scars on our spiritual body, it could look pretty horrid, but here is the good news because of God’s love for the lost He made a way for all to be as new babes and whiter than snow, (no spiritual scars) through Christ.

Consider these few thoughts:

• 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.”
• 1 Corinthians 3:1, “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ.”
• 1 Peter 2:2, “Like newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation.”
• Even from the Old Testament, we have this thought found in Psalm 51:7, “Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.”

        Our human bodies will always have the scars of life, while our spiritual body is like that of a newborn baby–pure and whiter than snow, through the blood of Christ.

Dick Brant