Purify me from sin with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
– Psalm 51:7 (GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995))
When I first read this verse years ago I just didn’t get it. How are the branches of a hyssop plant supposed to clean sin? Remember the night the children of Israel were about to delivered from Egypt and the death angel took all the first born? The exception was he was not allowed to touch those who were in houses that had the lamb’s blood on the door posts spread on them by…say it with me…HYSSOP! Now it’s not the hyssop plant that cleans sin but the BLOOD that that is applied with it. Thank you Jesus for your Blood! What can make me white as snow? Nothing but the Blood!