Spoonful of Sugar: Squeaky Clean
“Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.”
Psalm 51:7
Can you think of anything whiter than snow? When seen under a magnifying glass, a snowflake is a multi-faceted crystal, clear and pure and clean. When the light of the sun touches snow it sparkles.
The verse above is one of King David’s prayers to God. King David had committed a great sin of adultery with another man’s wife and then sent that man to the front of a battle where he was killed (2 Samuel 11). When the prophet Nathan confronted David, the king admitted his sin and repented, and then he wrote the remarkable words of Psalm 51.
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