so not arguing the end result of Jesus being the only way - i must disagree with my brother. in the afore mentioned verse, "beyond cure" is a good representation of our hearts. we ask for God to create in us something clean, and He can, and will - but being in our infinitely sinful lives we will always have a heart that cannot stay unblemmished or free from this sickness. Jesus is the great cleanser, or doctor - He can heal our hearts, or help them, and a change can take place but it will not make us sin free. a cure implies that we are recovered from our decietfulness and wickedness, which is not the case. if that were true, then when we stand before God, He would see our hearts and not Jesus.

Jesus can wipe away the ugliness of our sin, but it will always come back as long as we are in our earthly bodies. but we still need Jesus to constantly walk with us along the roads of our life as opposed to telling Jesus thanks for the one time thing and being on our merry way because our sin eats away at us during our day to day walk and we cannot live full and happy lives as long as we hide the sin in our heart. our sin is like a cancer to our heart - constantly corrupting something that was meant to be pure. Jesus can give us kemo therapy on a daily basis and get rid of the cancer - but it will always come back. all this is added up in the end and accounts for all of what Jesus covers with His love. that is why our hearts and all our good intentions aren't put before the Father, but yet Jesus is. so Jesus is the only way to appear before God truly spotless and sin free - but until that day comes, sin will always be with us, so we should constantly ask for Jesus' healing so that we can live more full and free lives - which is why i cry out for Jesus daily... unless you are like the weirdo preacher on campus that time who didn't sin anymore after accepting Christ... but i think we all know how real he was keepin it...

as always, trying to keep it real... REAL real...