Until his retirement... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2025

For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Isaiah 38:17; Micah 7:19

Until his retirement, the man had been completely indifferent to anything to do with religion or the beliefs of the Bible. But then a serious illness had made him think, and he had found the Saviour, Jesus Christ. A former work colleague visited him and sat with him by his sickbed.

“You know,” said the sick man, “since I’ve been lying here, I’ve done a great work, one that I’d always put off for later.”

“Really? What have you been able to do exactly?” asked the visitor, quite surprised.

“I’ve picked up all the dirty laundry that I’d been dragging around with me, without leaving any of it behind.”

“Your dirty laundry? What did you do with it?” the visitor asked in amazement.

“I wrapped it up into a bundle and laid the whole thing down at the feet of my crucified Saviour, Jesus Christ. Since then I’ve got rid of it and I don’t have to struggle with it anymore.”

We shouldn’t wait until retirement or an illness to do this. We must confess to Christ all of our moral misery, all of our works, of which God says that even the best of them are like filthy rags before Him (Isaiah 64:6).

If, like the writer of Psalm 51:2, we sincerely say, “Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin”, then God’s answer is, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow” (Isaiah 1:18).

Today’s reading: Nehemiah 4:9-5:5 · Proverbs 12:10-19