"To Purge"

I am just a simple country girl. Not too much fancy about me, even though I pretend like I'm high-maintenance sometimes to annoy my husband. I soak in as much of the simple and precious things in life as I can. Saying all that many times when I am studying my Bible God uses those simple things to help me understand what I am reading. Take for example...Psalm 51, what an awesome story behind this Psalm, David had gone to Bathsheba and sinned against God by adultery and then even murder. This is his prayer of forgiveness. I read verse 7, "Purge me" David says. First thing came to my mind is the men of the house "purging" crawfish when we have family cookouts and crawfish boils. They take those nasty-been-rolling-all-in-the-mud crawfish and put them in large containers, they put the water hose to them and fill it up. Let the water out, then repeat. They add in salt to help them get even cleaner. This process breaks out all the dirt and sand from around the shell and under the tail of the crawfish. What a great way of saying "purge me God" cleanse me not just mearly brush off the outside but PURGE me. Get it all out from under the crevices and the nooks. One thing about it though. Is there is no need for repeating when God gives that forgiveness and that cleansing, that sin is gone, no stains, no residue, nothing. We are the ones that cause ourselves to get dirty again by rolling in the "mud" I pray today that God purges me from my sin. My sin of worry and sins of omission. Sins of ugly thoughts and tempers. Purge me clean Father, remove it all.