What If You Imagined Your Body Washed Pure from All Shame?

<p>Christian Meditation is a quiet time for you to re-integrate and re-calibrate your mind with your body. And re-integrate and re-calibrate your mind and body with God‘s presence with you and in you. Remember the quote from the apostle Paul in Acts 17:28 – <em>In him you live and move and have your being</em>.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In our last episode we looked at…</p><p><strong>1 Corinthians 6:11 NIV</strong></p><p>“…You were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”</p><p><br></p><p>I wanna come back to a verse we looked at a few months ago…&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Hebrews 10:10 (NIV)</strong></p><p>…We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Hebrews 10:19-22 (NIV)</strong></p><p>19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through …his body, …22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.</p><p><br></p><p>This is all imagination language. Somehow the body of Jesus on the cross paid for all the sins I have committed with my body and in my heart.</p><p><br></p><p>So this passage paints a mental image for us of entering what would be the scariest place in the universe for guilty people — the holy presence of God – but because of the body of Jesus offered on the cross on our behalf, we can now enter with confidence. Not because of our righteousness but because of Jesus’s bodily sacrifice for us. So he says to draw near to God with full assurance that our guilty conscience has been cleansed and our bodies have been washed. This is imagery. But I think it’s the kind of imagery tha