clean turban, hallow bone, pure vessel

I had a terrible dream..I was trying to show someone my blog, (this is the someone I dream about whenever I feel inadequate and like a failure.) I couldn't get to my blog, it was humiliating. Later I discover the name of my blog had been changed to Filthiness. That' s why I couldn't get to it.
Isaiah 64:6-12
6 All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. 7 No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away because of our sins. 8 Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.


All our righteous acts are like filthy rags. Let's face it, there's not a one of us utterly pure and not a one of us who doesn't have some pride and yuckiness tainting our good works. Yet we are His workmanship, His creation, His responsibility. Wrong motives will keep us from being the pure vessel or the clean, new, hallow bone that God can work through. But He is the potter, we the clay, the work of His hands.

Like Joshua in the following text, our clothes are filthy. We need a clean turban for our heads.


Zech 3:1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him. 2 The Lord said to Satan, "The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?" 3 Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel. 4 The angel said to those who were standing before him, "Take off his filthy clothes." Then he said to Joshua, "See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put rich garments on you." 5 Then I said, "Put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the Lord stood by. 6 The angel of the Lord gave this charge to Joshua: 7 "This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'If you will walk in my ways and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.
8 "'Listen, O high priest Joshua and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch. 9 See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it,' says the Lord Almighty, 'and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day. 10 "'In that day each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and fig tree,' declares the Lord Almighty."


I love this! God takes responsibilty for us. He removes our filthiness by the servant, the Branch, the one stone. By the Branch, our sins are removed in a single day and we can sit under the fruits of His blessing!
'Nazarite' in English would be Branch, the Shamash, the servant candle brings light, and oh the stone that the workers rejected became the Cornerstone. Oh yeah, I see Jesus in all these 'symbolic things'...
Sometimes I can feel that beautiful, clean turban on my head, I didn't do anything to deserve it. Well, maybe there's one thing that helps me to keep it clean and that's realizing that any good thing that pours through this earthern vessel, through this hallow bone is not my doing but His. I can be a conduit of His Love if I let Him. I can let His help flow through me to others. I can walk in his ways and invite my neighbors to sit under his vine.