05/08/2026
Today was our annual school Arbor Day. The students did an awesome job helping beautify our campus. One of the major tasks many groups undertook was washing all sorts of areas around the building, including desks, walls, and cubby spaces.
As part of an afternoon devotion during a break from our Arbor Day work, we reminded the students that they, too, have been washed. In 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, the apostle Paul lists many sins and sinful lifestyles that make people unworthy of eternal life in heaven. The sins he mentions include greed, stealing, slander, drunkenness, adultery, and allowing anything to become more important than God (idolatry).
We all agreed that, if we are being honest, we have committed and struggled with many of those sins. We all fall far short of God’s perfect standard. Because of that, none of us could ever earn our way into heaven.
But here is the good news of the gospel: 1 Corinthians 6:11 reminds us that we have been washed clean! Jesus came and lived the perfect, sinless life that we never could. He took all of our sins to the cross and paid for them fully. Through faith in Him, His perfect righteousness is credited to us. By His blood, we have been washed clean of every sin. We are now justified — declared not guilty — in God’s sight!
Just as our campus felt fresh and renewed after all of our Arbor Day work, we too have been made new through Jesus. Because of His redeeming work on our behalf, we can look to the future with confidence and joy, knowing that an eternity in heaven with Him awaits us. God has transformed us from sinners into saints.
1 Corinthians 6:11 expresses this truth beautifully:
“And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
Thanks be to Jesus for washing us clean!
— Principal Brad Gurgel
