Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
- Isaiah 1:18
Lately my daughter has been very particular about getting messy. Just a few minutes into a meal, she’ll start insistently asking us for a napkin or a washcloth. When we retrieve one and go to help her, we usually find a small dab of ketchup or ranch dressing on her hand, something insignificant compared to the messes she used to make at the table. Nevertheless, she remains unsatisfied until you give her the napkin.
The same is true when she’s playing and gets mud on her legs or paint on her fingers or spills water in her lap. Little girl does not like to be messy, and when she is, she wants nothing more than to be made clean.
In a spiritual sense, we share that characteristic. Scripture reminds us that we are all sinners in need of salvation, that we are all broken people in need of mending, that we all have messes which need to be cleaned up. But unlike a glass of spilled milk, your soul is not something we can wipe clean yourself.
The good news is that, by the death of Christ on the cross, the work has already been done to wipe our sins away—“though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow.” Because of Jesus’s sacrificial death, you are forgiven of your sins and reconciled to God.
In a messy world, we all want to be made clean. In Christ, God has made a way.
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