After being acquired from the Jawas, Luke took C3PO inside to get him cleaned up. As the droid sinks into an oil bath, he exclaims, “Thank the maker! This oil bath is going to feel so good. I’ve got such a bad case of dust contamination. I can barely move!”
While C3PO was still in a position of being owned by someone else, he could to rejoice in his situation just as we all called to do 1 Thessalonians 5:16.
Psalm 100:4 reminds us that we should “Enter His [the LORD’s] gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise! Give thanks to Him; bless His name!”
For a droid that spent an untold amount of time wandering through the desert, it was expected that he would have a lot of dust contamination. For a droid, dust and sand getting into his joints would keep him from moving.
We also need to know that our “dust contamination” can come from the company we keep. In 1 Corinthians 15:33, Paul quotes a saying people were familiar with, “Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company ruins good morals.’”
The good news for us is that according to 1 Peter 3:18, “Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.”
Just as C3PO was cleaned by the oil bath, Hebrews 9:11-14 shows us how Jesus’ death and shed blood cleansed us from our sins and purified us.
Know that Christ died once and for all and cleansed us from all our sins; past, present, and future. We should thank God for this precious gift.
In addition to thanking God, how should we live knowing this?
