Thoughts for another day

January 28, 2009.

Today's verse: is. 1:18b. though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

What greater joy can it give to us, God’s creatures than that He promised to wash us clean of our sins? It means we now enabled to share the heavenly portals and enjoy the sweetness of the abode of the Most High, who is none other than our Abba Father.

Even before God laid the foundation of the world, He knew the devil would beguile man, made of dust and make him perish. It was the dictate and justice of God that Adam not disobey Him. God wouldn’t change this eternal law for that would disprove His divinity. But, the Son of God, Jesus Himself who would be the Anointed One, seeing the dismay of the Father committed to becoming small…very small, emptying Himself of all His glory and going down to earth to die, so that our death would be transmuted onto Him and we would be saved. Jesus, knew what it meant to become sin, for us to become righteous in Him, which is why because of human weakness He prayed intensely in the garden of Gethsemane, imploring the Father to allow the cup to pass from Him but giving room for the Father’s will to be done.

What does this mean for us? No matter the extent of damage we’ve done our souls by sinning, we can dare to lift our eyes and behold Him and pray, ‘Lord let Your glory shine upon us.’ For we know that even though our sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow and though they are like crimson, they shall be as wool.’ This is the promise we have in Him who loved us and died for us. Behold now, we are assured that we will partake of the Groom’s wedding feast, where the bride is none other but us. Where the joy is not ours alone but of the Father’s too, who delights in us, His inheritance. Imagine, the Father of lights and glory taking us to be His inheritance; how good is our God!