God's Promises...series Isaiah 1:18

We are continuing in our small book by John Bradshaw called "God's Promises."

This week Isaiah 1:18 will be our verse:

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"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."

Isaiah 1:18

 

One thing I love about God's promises is that they are all-encompassing, God makes large, sweeping, all-inclusive promises that connect any believer with His goodness and grace. In Isaiah 1:18, God makes a remarkable statement: "Come now and let us reason together....though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool."

 

In its immediate context, this promise is addressed to Judah, a prodigiously wicked group of corrupt evildoers who had narrowly escaped the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. And yet God says to this sinful people that their sins can be washed away and become "as white as snow."

 

I've met some people who have done some very bad things- people in prison cells who will remain there for the duration of their lives. Yet they may obtain the assurance that while they must pay their debt to society, God can consider them to be clean from their sins. If you're carrying burdens brought about by sins and bad choices, you can know that no matter what you have done, God is both willing and able to take away your sin and make you completely clean. He has promised!