Insightful, Biblical Devotions
“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool” (Isa. 1:18).
Sin is like a red dye on our souls. Red dye creates stains and even if some of it is washed out, a faint discolouration will remain, or you can see a stain mark stays behind it. But the good news is that you don’t have to stay in your sin. You could make a case very strong on this verse from the grace of God that nobody ever got forgiven and their sins changed from crimson to being as white as snow through their own goodness because they deserved it. This is about the grace of God. God’s plan from the beginning has been to remove the ugly stain that sin has left in the world. And that’s what Isaiah 1:18 is talking about.
Nobody deserves forgiveness. We have a saviour who paid for our sins and that’s the only way our sins are dealt with like this. There is only one hope from sin and that’s the person of Jesus. There’s nothing you can do about your own sin or about your sin nature if you are an unbeliever. Sin is not superficial; it penetrates every fibre of our lives. When Adam and Eve chose to disobey, their relationship with God was fractured by sin and ever since that tragic day, all of us have inherited that sin disposition at the very core of our being. It’s important to know that only God can restore what sin has destroyed.
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