Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube with song and lyrics from Natalie Grant singing … Clean … poignantly singing of how we are restored to Christlike cleanliness when we confess and repent of our dirtiness.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Isaiah 43:25 [NLT] … 25 “I—yes, I alone—will blot out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them again.
… God’s promise to blot out and forget the sins of His people.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Isaiah 43:25, 44:22, 53:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God thru Isaiah, prophesies of His promise to cleanse the sins of His disobedient and chosen ones of Israel.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 103:12 [NLT] … 12 He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.
… Thru the Messiah God can - and will - remove our sins as far as the east is from the west.
Reference Passage : … Micah 7:19 [NLT] … 19 Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!
… God’s prophesy and promise to cast our sins in the “sea of forgetfulness.”
Reference Passage : … 1 John 1:9 [NLT] … 9 But if we confess our sins to him, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from ALL wickedness.
… Our confession and repentance cleanses us from all our transgressions.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Patricia Raybon, uses a story about the invention of the eraser to illustrate how God erases our errors/sins when we repent and receive God’s saving grace. The ODB author wrote … When he invented the pencil eraser [see photo], British engineer Edward Nairne was reaching instead for a piece of bread. Crusts of bread were used then, in 1770, to erase marks on paper. Picking up a piece of latex rubber by mistake, Nairne found it erased his error, leaving rubberized “crumbs” easily swept away by hand.
With us too the worst errors of our lives can be swept away. It’s the Lord—the Bread of Life—who cleans them with His own life, promising never to remember our sins. “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake,” says Isaiah 43:25, “and remembers your sins no more.”
What a wondrous and wonderful promise!! That our Lord can - and will - selectively separate us from our sins, when we repent and confess of our sins, … casting them as far as the east is from the west (see Ps. 103:12); and then even further He will selectively choose to forget our sins [see Micah 7:19] and see only what His Son did on the cross to erase the sins of any/all who repent and confess of our sinful ways.
And I almost always tear up when I hear Natalie Grant’s song, … Clean … because I do remember how dirty I used to be, … how dirty I still can be at times, … in my sin nature. And to think - and KNOW - that my Lord shed His blood so that He could be THE Eraser of my sins, … choosing to cast them in His sea of forgetfulness.
Oh, … do I sense a robust “HALLELUJAH?!!”
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for being my Eraser.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me and in a “HALLELUJAH” of praise to our Lord for becoming “The Eraser” of our sins on the cross. … Amen
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