Restaurants and hotels purposefully use carpet that has so many designs and patterns that stains are not easily noticed. They just blend right in. Do we ever try to hide stains in our own lives in similar fashion?
The Lord says that our “sins are like scarlet…are red like crimson” (Isa. 1:18). That is not an easy stain to hide. Have you ever spilled grape juice on your white shirt? That’s not coming out and everyone is going to see it. The old hymn says, “Sin had left a crimson stain.” That’s not easy to get out (or is it?).
You may be able to get your sin-stained soul to blend in with other sin-stained souls around you, but it will never be hidden from the eyes of God! However, it is God who can make you “as white as snow” (Isa. 1:18). When the blood of Jesus washes “us from our sins” (Rev. 1:5), the stain is gone! Even God cannot (and will not) see it any longer (Heb. 8:12)! So, stop trying to hide your sins! Confess them (1 John 1:9), stop them (1 John 2:1) and be cleansed from them (2 Cor. 7:1).