Today’s Reading: Isaiah 1:1-5, 12-18
Today’s Verse: Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18 KJV
Snow is frozen ice crystals that fall in light white flakes. They begin to form white layers as they hit the ground.
Snow can also be seen as a powerful symbol. It has a wide range of meanings often associated with purity, a new beginning, and sense of cleansing.
In this passage, snow is the symbol of purity and cleanness.
God desires that all be cleaned and live according to the Word.
Through the Savior there is a Fountain open.
One in which sinners of every age and rank may be cleansed.
Through the Prophet Isaish, God appealed to the Israelites.
He said, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18 KJV).
God made this promise when His children had a really bad problem with sin.
He knew they were struggling with making the right choices.
He compared them to a body suffering with “wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment (Isaia 1:6 KJV).
As bad as their sin was, God desired to extend His grace to them.
He wants to do the same for us.
Though our sins have been like scarlet and crimson. A deep dye, a double dye, first in the wool of original corruption, and afterwards in the many threads of actual transgression.
And we have often dipped into sin, by many backslidings.
Yet His pardoning mercy will take out the stain.
All we have to do is confess our sins. Turn from our wicked ways. Showing Him that we really want to change.
Like the Psalmist we can say, “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow” (Psalms 51:7 KJV).
Sin may stain our lives, but when we confess it and repent, “we have redemption through [His] blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of [His] grace” (Ephesians 1:7 KJV).
We will proclaim that, His grace is sufficient for us.
That His strength is made perfect in our times of weakness.
Making it where we will always find glory in our infirmities. Because we know that the power of Christ is resting upon us (2 Corinthians 12:9 KJV)
It is God’s grace covering our sin. Not just covering it but also erasing it.
He want us to have all the happiness and comfort we could desire.
By His grace, it will always be possible.
A WORD OF PRAYER
O Lord, life and death, good and evil, are set before us. We want to live to Thy glory. Give us the courage to confess and bare our sinful hearts to You. We know that forgiveness of sins come according to the riches of Your grace. A forgiving love that will always set us free. Thank You for Your saving grace. For loving us and giving us a chance to do the right thing.
In Jesus Name We Pray, Amen