Utterly Unclean

"He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head. And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean" (Leviticus 13:44,45). "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Proverbs 16:25). "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin" (1 John 1:7).

Unclean! Unclean! The leper thus would cry.
What then does this mean? What does it signify?
How shall we understand this passage we have read?
For this was God's command when the plague was in his head.

There is a way that seems, to man, that all is right;
Thus leprosy, unclean, is a portrait that sheds light,
Allowing us to see the end of sin that spreads:
That sin will surely be like cancer in our heads.

There is way of healing; a way that God gives peace.
His Gospel is revealing, the cure for sin's disease.
O come to Christ today, and discover what it means
To have sin washed away by the blood of Christ that cleans!