March 30, 2022 … White As Snow

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 89 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the Maranatha Singers singing … White As Snow … poignantly singing of how we, as born-again believers, are cleansed by the blood of Christ to be white as snow.  

Cleansed as white as snow ... 

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …Isaiah 1:18 [NLT] …  

18 “Come now, let’s settle this,” says the Lord. …  “Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool.  

… God promises that one day His Messiah will make our sinful hearts clean.  

Highlight Passage [Context]: … Isaiah 1:10-18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru the Prophet Isaiah, rebukes empty sacrifice when the hearts of His people are still stained with sin.                                                   

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Reference Passage : … Psalms 51:10 [NLT] … 

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God.  Renew a loyal spirit within me. 

… David’s prayer for cleansing after his confession of his sins with Bathsheba. 

Reference Passage: … John 14:6 [NLT] … 

27 Jesus told him [Thomas and the Disciples in the upper room], “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.  

… Jesus helps His confused disciples to see that the only way to heaven is thru His cleansing blood.    

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 7:1 [NLT] … 

1 Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit.  And let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God. </i>

…Paul teaches truth to fellow Christians that we can only be cleansed of our sin thru our fear of God and the cleansing power of Christ’s blood.  

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

… John helps true, born-again, Christians realize that the only way to cleansing of our sin is to bring our sins in humble confession to God’s throne of grace. 

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Marvin Williams… AT THIS LINK …  … reports that the BBC had revealed a Chinese process of coating clothing with a substance which cleanses the garment of stains when exposed to ultra-violet light.   

And a self-cleaning process for fabrics may be a reality <b>(see photo)</b>; but when it comes to the dreaded stains of our sin, the only way we can find cleansing is through our belief in the truth of Christ’s cleansing powder and His blood which was shed to cleanse us from our sin.  

Oh how I pray that all reading here have availed ourselves of Christ’s cleansing blood, as revealed in the Scriptures above, bringing about the cleansing of the stain of sin from our lives forever. 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for cleansing me of my scarlet sin and making them as white as snow from my life FOREVER.      

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, …  to confess our scarlet sins today, and always, to have them made as white as snow by Your blood, Lord.      Amen 

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