Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, 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 become like wool.”
Several weeks ago I was forced into total submission on the downtown connector. Snow was coming down sideways as I sat in my car not moving for hours. I couldn’t believe I had to make a trip for work across town at such an inopportune time…..Friday afternoon, blinding snow, I-75/85………..Really? While digging in my purse for gum, I came across my camera. Funny thing cameras, they often see what the naked eye does not. Within minutes I had the window down shooting pictures of everything and everyone, I was having a blast! It occurred to me that even the biggest eyesores became amazingly beautiful when covered with snow. Are we that different? If the world saw only our sin & shortcomings, how ugly would we be? During this time of Lent, we need to remember that through God’s sacrifice of his son Jesus on the cross, our sins are totally forgiven and we are made beautiful. I think this song says it best: Jesus paid it all, All to him I owe. Sin had left a Crimson stain; he washed them white as snow.
Sheryl Cobb
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