Can We Really Be Made as White as Snow?
“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. (Isaiah 1:18)
Do you want to be healed?
It might sound like an odd question, but we have often carried our wounds for so long that many of us doubt that life could be any different.
The burdens we carry often accumulate without us even realizing it. It could be of the past, shame, and fear you would love to erase from your memory. Remorse for the sins which you wish never entered your life. Shame that seeks to consume you. Or fears that have felt paralyzing.
The weight of this load is painful.
Maybe this is how you’ve been feeling for a long while.
But the truth is, life can be different.
Simply put, you were never made to carry the weight of these things by yourself. There is one solution to this distress.
So the question remains, do you want to find relief? To be made new? To be cleansed?
One Way
Scripture speaks that all of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). We have all done things that are not in line with God’s declaration of holiness. We have fallen short, born into a broken world due to the Fall of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3).
God gave them free will, and they chose life with themselves at the center. However, humanity was made for more, so there is a void in our lives that only an active, authentic relationship with God could fulfill.
However, a remedy is provided so that they could be reconciled to God. Scripture reads:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
Thus, you can be saved by believing in Jesus Christ (that He is the Son of God, and that His death and resurrection are sufficient to fully save you from past, present, and future sins) (Acts 16:31).
If you believe in Christ, the sins you once held no longer define you. You can let the weight go in surrender, along with every part of your life, to the Creator. It means that regardless of what the future brings, the circumstances you will face, failures, and memories of the past, His grace will be even deeper. It is strong enough to cleanse every part of your life if you give it to God.
Nothing can separate you from His love (Romans 8:31-39); nowhere you can go that is absent from His presence (Psalm 139:7-12).
You belong to Him.
Dealing with the Sorrow of Sin
Rehearsed memories. Painful mistakes. Has shame ever been a part of your path?
The closer we get to God, the more we become aware of our sins. When we enter into a relationship with our Heavenly Father, our relation to sin is altered. We are more sensitive to it.
So, the consequence of our sin is sorrow. This leads us to two key distinctions: godly sorrow and worldly sorrow.
Godly sorrow seeks to restore. Our heavenly Father seeks to lovingly instruct, correct, and discipline us to bring us to healing. God’s love delights in the truth (1 Corinthians 13:6). This is for His glory (He is worthy of worship with our lives) and our good.
On the other hand, worldly sorrow seeks to destroy, to keep a person in the bondage of their past or weaknesses. To make the reminders of their sin consume their lives. This is from the enemy.
What God declares to be cleansed and redeemed, it is. Period. The Bible states:
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
Walking on a New Path
Jesus provides a way for us to be made new. However, this does not entail us living any way we please. Scripture reads:
“For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself’ (Galatians 5:13-14).
In coming to new life through salvation, we are not expected to return to our old ways. Rather, we are invited to walk on a new path in which we seek to do what pleases the Lord. We continually search for the truth in every circumstance and walk according to His ways, not ours. We are invited to forsake our old ways and live lives devoted to God and loving other people as people made in the image of God.
However, this does not imply that we will live a perfect life. King David, famously referred to as a man after God’s heart, found himself in the depths of several serious sins. Yet, David knew he could confess His sins to the Lord and turn around. He could be cleansed through a seemingly terrible situation. He writes:
“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow” (Psalm 51:7).
There is grace as we learn to walk out our lives with Christ, working out our salvation in fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12).
I pray you would seek the truth about the love of God and that it would bring comfort and new life to your souls, as it does to mine.
Let Him cleanse your heart once again.
Blessings,
