Day 2: Making the Unclean Clean

Reading: Acts 10:9-16 

Peter’s Vision

9 About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
 14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
 15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
 16 This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.

Reading: Mark 7:14-23 

14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” [16] [a]
 17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
 20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”

Devotional: 
Peter's rooftop vision challenged everything he believed about clean and unclean. God was preparing him to understand that His mission transcends human categories and religious boundaries. The repeated vision—three times—emphasized God's seriousness about this paradigm shift. In our lives, God still makes unclean things clean through the blood of Jesus. What areas of your life do you consider "unclean" or beyond redemption? What people groups do you struggle to see as worthy of God's love? God's transformative power extends to every corner of creation. He specializes in redemption, restoration, and making all things new. Allow Him to challenge your preconceptions today.