Are you getting yet another snow covering this morning? Our driveway and the roads around us barely got cleared of snow and ice when we got a major snowfall Tuesday night through Wednesday. Many of the back roads here are still snow covered, and at this moment, we are getting more snow that is covering everything once again!!
All this snow and the snow yet to come made me think of Isaiah 1:18
"Come now, and let us reason together,"
Says the LORD, "Though your sins are as scarlet,
They will be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They will be like wool."
Sometimes you may hardly get up out of the sin you are in, when you fall right back in and need to have the scarlet made white as snow... again. Do you ever feel like what is the point... that you will never get this... that you can never be what you need to be?
Along with Isaiah 1:18, 1 John 1:4-10 kept rolling over and over in my head, especially verse 9. "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us."
The very fact that you are frustrated with the sin in your life means that God is working with you. Once God starts a work, He completes it. It may be very uncomfortable. It may be very confusing. It may be such an intense battle that you get weary physically, but do not give up. Each time you fall, reach out to Jesus. Tell Him how much you hate what you are doing and how hard it is for you to do this on your own. Make yourself aware of His forgiveness in your life and His cleansing of your soul every time you ask Him.
The LORD bless you with experiencing your sins, though scarlet, being made white as snow.
I love you,
Ruth
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