You speak of a thing upon you causing ill, a curse of misfortune. Hear this, and let the truth cut away that foolish notion. Your trouble is not some phantom of bad luck, but the real and dreadful curse of sin. The Word declares, "Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." All have sinned, and all are by nature under that curse. To live under it, to go forth to your business under it, to sleep under it, this is the true disaster, a curse with a cause of overwhelming conclusiveness. Nothing too bad for which the mouth of slander can invent compares to the soul under the curse of God’s broken law. You cry for deliverance, and you are right to feel the weight, but you must know what it is that truly crushes you.
Now, consider this, no amount of washing with snow water will avail. You may try observances, moralities, charities, but all the gold in the world can never form an ointment to cleanse iniquity. Mr. Legality and his ilk are useless; your own doings and efforts cannot remove one spot. The cleansing must come from another place, and it must be a perfect cleansing, for a partial cleansing would be of no use. If it left but one sin still upon you in the sight of God, it would have no power to save. It must be a total and complete cleansing from all past guilt, and this is exactly what God has provided.
The way of deliverance is this: God has found a ransom. The clock of mercy struck in Heaven the hour and moment of deliverance when the Lamb was slain. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Do you grasp the weight of it? Jehovah-Tsidkenu, the darling of the Father, made a curse! He bore our sins and the curse which came of it, so that the guilty prisoner, ready to be executed, receives undeserved deliverance from all punishment because the King’s own Son has borne the penalty. There is a cleansing fountain opened, and its power is not in hyssop and scarlet wool, but in that precious blood which alone can purge the conscience. "Wash me, and I shall be clean," cries the penitent, "I shall be whiter than snow."
This deliverance is effectual, immediate, and attainable. God Himself applies the means of cleansing. He says, "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you." It is a gift of Divine Love, of Free Grace only. You can take no atom of the honor to yourself. Look to the Cross, mourn there, and perceive the cleansing from guilt and sin. This is followed by a reformation, a deliverance from the power of sin, so that you walk in liberty, for Christ’s yoke is easy. Do not doubt your deliverance, for God has said it: "I have found a ransom." The deliverance is certain; indeed, it is already accomplished for all who believe. Give up the superstition of luck and cast yourself wholly upon this sure and blessed truth.