Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a video of the Maranatha Singers singing … White As Snow, showing the clean beauty of God’s pure power, cleansing and covering the earth of it’s impurity.
Highlight Passage: Isaiah 1: 18 [NKJV] …
18 … Says the Lord, … “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; …
… He has covered our sins, making them white as snow with the crimson covering of Christ’s blood …
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Highlight Context – Isaiah 1: 18-20 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… The promise of God of God’s covering of sin with His blood for those who believe on Him and are obedient to His will.
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Reference Passage #1 - Psalm 51: 7 [NKJV] …
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
… David’s desire to be cleansed of His past sins …
Reference Passage #2 - 1st John 1: 9 [NKJV] …
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse of all our transgressions.
… As white as snow …
My Journal for Today: Today’s Our Daily Bread author, Dave Branon used a teaching word picture for his entry which reminded me of the snow my wife experienced when we lived for a year in Minnesota. It began to snow up there in November and it snowed often, covering the earth in whiteness and beauty (much like the attached photo). It was cold; but it was beautiful, the crystals of white covering over all the dirt and imperfections of the earth.
It’s an image used in God’s word often to describe the cleansing we can expect from God’s mercy for His obedient remnant, … i.e., the ones who’re willing to surrender themselves in faith to His mercy. He expressed this covering power through Isaiah to a disobedient Judah (see Isaiah 1:18-20 linked above). He promised cleansing to David when the King was willing to confess His sins with Bathsheba (see Psalm 51: 7). And it was the promise of the New Covenant after Christ’s blood on the cross was shed for any who would confess their sinfulness and come to Him in faith (see Romans 10:9-13 on your own and 1st John 1: 9 copied above).
So, when any faithful and obedient Christian brings the dirtiness of our sin to our Lord in humble confession, it is always God’s willingness to cleanse us, as the Maranatha Singers sing (linked above), and, in doing so, we will be cleansed … AS WHITE AS SNOW.
My Prayer Today: Heavenly Father, … cover me with your cleansing whiteness even today, helping me to see and confess my sins. … Amen
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