MEDITATIONS
FROM ISAIAH
October 12, 2005
Reading
“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
My soul, there are times when you look back and consider the sins you
have committed throughout your life and are tempted to ask, “Has God really
washed me clean in the blood of Jesus? Your mind tells you that it is
impossible because they are so heinous in His eyes, so your faith must trust in
His words.
“And, beloved, I
am not sure that those of us who are saved do not sometimes have misgivings
about this grand truth. Although I know that I am saved in Christ, yet at times
when I look back upon my life, and especially dwell upon some dark blots which
God has forgiven, but for which I can never forgive myself, the question comes
across me, “Is it so? Is that really blotted out? It was so, crimson, so
scarlet; can it be that the spot is entirely gone?” We know that, being washed
in the blood of Christ, we are whiter than snow; but it is not always that our
faith can realize the forgiveness of sins while our heart and conscience are
revolving the flagrancy of their guilt, It should not
be so. We ought to be able to bear, at one and the same time, a vision of sin
in all its horror, and a full view of the sacrifice for sin in all its holiness
and acceptance to God — to feel that we are guilty, weak, lost, and ruined, yet
to believe that Christ is not only able to save to the very uttermost, but that
he has saved us — to confess our crimes, while we cast ourselves without a
question into his blessed arms. I trust that we can do this but, alas, a fly
may find its way into the sweetest pot of ointment, a little folly may taint a
good reputation, and an unworthy doubt may tarnish the purest faith; so
it may be profitable to remind even the forgiven man that forgiveness of sin is
possible, that forgiveness of sin is presented in the gospel as a covenant
blessing, that forgiveness of sin is the possession of every believer in Jesus,
that his sin has gone entirely and irreversibly, and that for him all manner of
sin has been forgiven, blotted out, and put away through the precious blood of
Jesus, seeing that he has believed in God’s great propitiatory sacrifice.” C.H. Spurgeon
“Who
is a God like You, pardoning iniquity” Micah 7:18
“I,
even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My
own sake; and I will not remember your sins” Isa
43:25
“But
if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one
another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
If
we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness” 1 John 1:7-10.
Thank You, Jesus!