Elder Asay also gave counsel to help us avoid being contaminated by the sins of the world: “I would offer these simple guidelines ... as the means to preserve one’s savor: If it is not clean, do not think it; if it is not true, do not speak it; if it is not good, do not do it” (“Salt of the Earth,” 42–43).
Ponder what it will be like one day to stand before Jesus Christ knowing that you have been made clean through His Atonement by obedience to the principles, commandments, and ordinances of His gospel.
“Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean” (2 Kings 5:10–11, 13–14).
8 Since Jehovah set out such details in the Law to instruct the Israelites on how to become clean, holy, and acceptable to him, does it not behoove Christians today to consider carefully how they measure up in this regard?