If Only

I boarded a bus and as I was about sitting down, I noticed that the person sitting next to me was so dirty. It was like he had just finished rolling in sand and dirt. I was so disgusted. His hands and body looked like he creamed with diesel oil or something. I loathed sitting beside him.
I intended to change my seat but the other seats were occupied and I didn't wanna come down and have to wait for another bus. "another hustle and wahala" I thought. So I just sat still.
Sitting there made my heart bleed. I didn't want him to stain or soil my cloth. I didn't want him to touch me or crumple my cloth. I just wanted my cloth to be perfect. My heart was crying. "Don't touch me! Don't come close! Don't let your cloth touch mine! Don't even let our shoulders touch!!" I kept shouting (in my heart).
My heart was shouting and crying at the same time.
Whenever he leaned forward, my heart would rejoice. But the rejoicing wouldn't last long as he would change position again.
At some point, if he rested his back, I would lean forward so he wouldn't make my cloth dirty and if he leaned forward, I would rest my back against the seat.
During the journey, he stretched his hands towards the seat in front such that his hands rested on my shoulders. God! I cringed. He probably forgot his hands were resting on my shoulder or didn't know. So I touched my shoulders and shook my body a bit. I am sure he felt my inconvenience because he immediately removed his hands from my shoulders.
As I did all these, I knew I looked smart and clean and I wanted to remain that way. I didn't want him to even mistakenly touch me. I didn't want our clothes to touch. I didn't want my fine and neat looking clothes to get dirty or stained. I wanted to remain unsoiled I wanted to remain without blemish. I wanted my clothes to be without flaws, fault or stain.

If only 

And then it struck me!
If only
If only the way I cringed at the dirty looking guy sitting beside me was the way I cringed at sin
If only the way I loathed our clothes touching or my clothes getting stained was the way we all loathed getting associated or coming in contact with sin
If only
If only
If only the way I wanted my clothes to remain perfect was truly the way I was walking in perfection in my Christian race
If only
If only the way I wanted my clothes to be without blemish, without stain, without flaws was the same way my life was truly without stain and blemish and sin
If only the way my heart was bleeding sitting down beside a dirty guy was the same way my heart bled at the sight of sin
If only the way I didn't wanna get associated with the guy was also the same way we all didn't wanna get associated with sin
If only
If only
John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through his might be saved.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
We are to flee from all appearances of evil and I only wanted to remind us that we should do that. Remember how Joseph fled? We should also flee from sin and I pray that God help us all.

Thanks for reading till the end. I hope you were blessed. Do drop your comments below.
Please note:
It is not that I am condemning the man I mentioned above. As a matter of fact, he might be coming from his place of work (I guess).
But his filthy attire was the point of interest. I only wanted to share with you what I learnt. That the same way I was running away from filth is the same way we all should run away from the filth in this world.
 Thank you and God bless.