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Perhaps you have been wrestling with the idea of being “saved,” of Jesus dying for your sins.

What did His death on the cross accomplish? How does it work?

Peter stated very explicitly that Jesus died on the cross so that we could be made righteous: “He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by His wounds you have been healed” (1 Pet. 2:24, NIV).

Is that too much for the human mind to understand?

Not at all.

Let me take you back to your last shower. When you turn off the water, you are standing there soaking wet. Your desire is to be dry. You reach for a towel and in a few minutes, you are, indeed, dry.

How does that work? The towel does not give you its dryness; it leaves you dry by taking your wetness. At the beginning of the procedure, you were wet and the towel was dry. At the end, the towel is wet and you are dry.

Pretty simple, huh?

In the same way, when you realize that you are “wet” with sin and want desperately to be “dry” and righteous, you reach for Jesus. He is perfectly righteous.

But when the procedure is completed, you are dry, having been made righteous by Jesus, who has absorbed your sin. The Bible says, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23, NIV).

I invite you to stand at the foot of the cross, completely dry, and look up at an amazing Savior who is soaking wet with your sin.

Yes, it is that simple.