February 17, 2023 … Way Clean !! …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 48 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Maranatha Singers singing  … White As Snow … poignantly and powerfully singing of we Christians are cleansed of our sin - as white as snow - when we come, on confession and repentance, to Lord, Whose blood cleanses us. 

No scrubbing can clean these stains ... 

============        

Highlight Passage: … Isaiah 64:8 [NLT] … 

8  And yet, O Lord, You are our Father We are the clay, and You are the potter. We all are formed by your hand.   

… God, thru Isaiah, shows that He shapes us - and reshapes us - to cleanse us from our deforming sin.                                                                                                    

Highlight Passage (Context): … Isaiah 64:1-8 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

…  Isaiah depicts God as the “Potter” and His people being the clay for Him to reshape us in His image.        

===============                                                                     .                                                                                                             

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 53 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… plan was to send a Messiah to take upon Himself the sins of the world.        

Reference Passage: … Romans 3:23, 6:23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… We’re all irretrievably stained by our sin; but with His blood and the Lord’s free gift of His saving and cleansing grace., … the stain of our sin is cleansed perfectly.   

Reference Passage: …  Ephesians 1:7, 2:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches to follow Christians that it is the grace of God and our surrender to believe in His saving grace which cleanses us from the stain of our sin, … not by anything we do.  

Reference Passage: …  Titus 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul repeatedly teaches to Christians that only the grace of God the blood of Christ can cleanses us from the stain of our sin. 

    

Reference Passage: …  1John 1:7-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle John teaches truth about the blood of Christ cleansing us of our sin when we’re willing to confess our sins to the LORD.                                 

                                                                             

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Adam Holz … AT THIS LINK …   shows that there are some stains in flooring (see photo) that cannot be cleaned up by scrubbing.  

But we who know that the blood of Christ and our belief in His saving grace can completely cleanse us from the stains of our sin; and, as the Maranatha Singers, in the linked song sing, … i.e., to make us white as snow again as cleansed sinners.  Oh, how I pray that all my readers have experienced the cleansing blood of Christ’s saving grace. Because, if you need that cleansing grace, He’s only a prayer away.                            

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for taking away the stains of my sin … FOREVER!!                

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to receive the cleansing grace of Your blood, alway available to us who know You as Lord and Savior.     … Amen

=============

Blogger Note:  Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries.  If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.