daily java

Daily Java: “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” (Isaiah 1:18)

There is a matter of sin between us and God. He  made us perfect, we screwed it up and now we are sinful. What do we do?

We give our sins to him. When it comes down to it, we really can’t do anything else with them. There they are festering, simmering and we are stuck with them. We can be sorry, we can regret, we can pretend that they are old friends – but they are standing between us and God.

Isaiah 59:2 says, But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. It isn’t that we do not want to see God or be with God, it is just that there is such a boundary between us, a no man’s land of sin. We can’t cross it. We keep on adding to the bunch each day. He can’t cross it. He is holy and can have nothing to do with sin.

So what do we do?

We allow him to change them. They are still there, but now they are different. He has removed them to another place: Jesus. Romans 3:25 says God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. Jesus took the sins and removed them.

When we give our sins to the Lord, he takes them and makes them non-existent. They are changed from scarlet to white. He removes them and makes us holy. When that happens, the matter is settled. The sins are as far from him

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. (Psalm 103:11-13)

We are his. And our sins no longer matter.