dirty dishes

Today I was doing the dishes and I had a few pans that were really hard to clean, they were filthy, with grease, tough spots to scrub, some I had to let sit in the water to kind of soak out. While I was doing the dishes I started thinking how dishes are similar to us, we are those dirty dishes an God is our cleaner God is washing, an scrubbing us to get us as clean as he wants us to be so we can be used again and again, some dishes are harder to clean then others some need to be left to soak an that's the time when we are trying to do things on our own an feel like we don't need God so were just sitting there trying to soak an let the stains disappear on its own. We can't do it that way we have to be scrubbed a cleaned so that we can be pure a used again. Something as simple as doing dishes today made me really take a second look at any stains in my life or any scrubbing that needs done. Do you have any dirty dishes?