No matter how dirty something gets, it can always be cleaned!

It is not very frequently that you hear deeply Biblical truths spoken by movie characters. And yesterday, I was watching Bruce Almighty for the second time, and towards the end of the movie there was a dialogue that encouraged me a lot.

In the scene where Morgan Freeman and Jim Carrey mop the floor of empty white hall together, Freeman says something like "The good thing is no matter how dirty something gets, it can always be cleaned!"

What this dialogue taught me was that:

1. No matter how dirty my heart is, God sees me as someone who can be better.
2. No matter how weak I am, God views me as someone who can be made strong.
3. I need to show the same attitude towards a hurting husband, a naughty child, or a bitter enemey. They are not bad, but just could me made better.

We need not focus on the dirt, but on the faith that it can be cleaned. After all, doesn't He look at each of us the same way?

Is there a verse in the Bible that matches the dialgoue? Oh yes...

1 Samuel 16: 7 ..for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.