2 Timothy 4:7-8 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith: Finally, there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give to me on that day: and not to me only, but also to all who have loved His appearing.

As Scotland was declaring its independence from England in the 1300s, the English were hunting for Robert Bruce of Scotland in an attempt to prevent his accession to the Scottish throne. In the search, the English put Bruce’s own bloodhounds on his trail. As they grew closer to apprehending him, Robert the Bruce found a small river. He said to his foster brother who was with him, “Let us wade down this stream for a great way instead of going straight across, and so these unhappy hounds will lose the scent, for if we were once clear of them, I should not be afraid of getting away from the pursuers.”

Robert the Bruce escaped his pursuers by entering a river, and not long afterward, the crown of Scotland rested on his head.

The devil uses our own “sin-hounds” to hunt us relentlessly — past and present sins, he uses to keep us from our crown, our position with Yeshua (Jesus), and the rewards that will follow a life of abiding in Him. But we also have a way of escape! Entering into the river of God, which flows with the blood of Yeshua, being totally cleansed, the “hounds of sin” cannot touch us, and we, too, can come out on the other side, free and ready to reign with Him!

Allow your sins to be washed away — swept into eternity by the cleansing flow of the blood of Christ, and walk in the freedom that Yeshua provided 2000 years ago. Let your past, with all its sins, be washed downstream, realizing that a crown of righteousness awaits you and every saint who loves His appearing!

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