Today, I woke up and decided to do something instead of just sitting at home bored....or get a head start on my homework for Tuesday. I decided I would take the nice weather as an opportunity to trim the goat hooves that have needed done for awhile. I chose to do my favorite goat first...and after examining his coat, decided that a bath could help get rid of some of his dry skin. After doing a few other goats, I got the gumption to bathe our buck (fully intact male). For those of you who don't know....bucks attract females by urinating all over themselves. This buck is about three years old...a.k.a....three years of urine was built into his coat and he smells very bad. I got Willy into the stand, trying not to gag and began spraying him off. The water rinsed off a light brown color, that is how dirty he was. I worked for close to an hour to clean this thing, scrubby like crazy to get the built up urine to detach from his skin. When mom went out to feed him a few hours later, she was sad to report that the smell was back. His cleanness had only lasted for a few short hours before he peed all over himself again. stupid goat.
Being Easter weekend, I began thinking about this absurd behavior. I had just taken the action of cleaning Willy and all of his grime yet he went right back out and continued the action that got him all smelly. I find this disgusting, yet so often, I behave just like Willy. I cry out for forgiveness for all of those things that make me smelly....only to go right back to living my life and doing the very thing I had just been cleaned from.
I smell of sin. Other people are repulsed by me, yet Christ dared come close enough to me to clean me of my stench. Christ did this unthinkable action, yet I take it so lightly, I go right back to sinning and working up my smell.
that's absurd. stupid human.
Jesus paid it all
All to him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow
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