A large silver bowl can be used here and placed in line with the lamp
and mirror. The Bible not only shows us our sins as in a mirror, but
shows us the way the remedy can be secured. In the old wilderness
tabernacle, a laver was provided at the entrance of the tabernacle to
give a means of cleansing from the defilement which would oftentimes
render the worshiper unfit for God's presence; so a cleansing stream,
seen only by the eye of faith, flows through this book. It broke
forth from the first promise of the woman's seed (Gen. 3:15) and
flowed all the way through the Bible until it broke into the
trumpet-song of the redeemed in glory. "Unto Him that loved us, and
washed us from our sins in his own blood" (Rev. 1:5). As water
cleanses by separating the body from the outward stains, so the Word
of God applied by the Holy Spirit causes the heart to abhor the
defilement of sin which would stain and defile the inward life. "Thy
word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee" (Ps.
119:11); and Jesus said, "Now are ye clean through the word which I
have spoken unto you" (John 15:3).