THE BRIGHT HEALING HYSSOP

Psalms 84:9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

There is a place in our life where the stains of dirt overcome the white of purity; where the blotch of wickedness overpowers the beauty of virtue. What is to be done in such a place?

For millennia, Professor Kent B. Good, a humanist scientist, has tried to find a scrubbing solution that will clean blotchy stains from the human soul. Relentlessly each day, he entered his laboratory. He went to the cabinet of ‘self-reliance’ and used all its chemistries.

He first prepared a liquid solution, a mix made of ‘religion’, ‘human piety’. He diluted it all in ‘lie’. He added to it at least two scouring ingredients such as self-appointed ‘good works’ and ‘bargain sacrifices’. The final potion was mixed into a creamy paste in a special blender activated by ‘human effort’. He took the paste, and using the applicator of ‘vain prayers’, he applied it on the soul of his students, poor unsuspecting soul laden with condemnation, and waited for time to do its work. But lo, the paste hardened into a rigid cast of legalistic formalism merely instituting control of movement. The symptoms were gone, but the disease continued its rotting work, though unsuspected, on the inside. Such is the fate of all those who rely on themselves for righteousness.

Let us now hear the Words of the Master, the Creator of our soul. He has the ‘antidote’ for the diseases sin brought upon us. He owns the cleansing *Hyssop (Leviticus 14:49-56) that cures by purifying on the inside. We must apply the hyssop cream of repentance on the bright spots and leprous scabs of sin. We also must shield them with the blood his Anointed the Lord Jesus-Christ, and its brightness will overshadow all stains. He says, Come now, and let us reason together . . . though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18), and, I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more (Jeremiah 31:34).

It is vain to try to prove ourselves to God through our own efforts. He knows our frame that we are but dust (Psalms 103:14). We must call on to him to only “behold” the “shield” and the “face” of his Anointed, and the imperfections of our human nature will be cleared in His sight.
*The ancient used to use hyssop for cleaning and the curing of diseases, the levitical laws also advise its use for purification (Lev 14),. For more information on hyssop go to
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.