Daily Scripture Threshing for Tuesday, August 4, 2020
God’s “Let” Diary (Part 55) — Let Us Reason Together
Today’s Text: Isaiah 1:18-23
Key Verses: Isaiah 1:18 (KJV) — “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
Before us today is a scripture that pictures God’s love to us in an amazing way. It is like a love proposal from heaven to earth — a letter of reconciliation written to mend a fractured relationship between the just God and a generation helplessly hindered by sin and crippled by guilt. If it is a charge to court before God, who would dare stand in the dock to prove a case? Who would dare defend himself before a God who knows our uprisings and down-fallings? I’ll tell you: the best of men can never clear himself from guilt of sin.
In Psalm 130:3, David confesses that if God were to watch for men’s lapses, as one watches for the dawn, no single one will be able to stand before God; nothing but damnation would be the case. Job, David, Jeremiah and Amos strongly posited that God watches humanity. The writer of Hebrews says all things are plain before the eyes of God before whom we reckon. However, because of His eternal love, God is, Himself, making a way of reconciling men back to Him. He knows that not a single one of all us could rescue himself from the deep gulf of sin fixed upon our hearts. So He offers to help us take it away if we only can come contrite and and reason with Him. The stains will not be covered by wipeouts or tip-ex. No, but they shall be washed in the blood of Jesus and made white as snow or as wool.
Humanity would pay any price to be free from the uneasy yokes of sin; but God says no I’ve made it free and easy. No argument is useful, all heaviness are needless, and every headiness useless. Only humble yourself before me and you can always sup with me and I with you — at my table eternally. But the first thing is, come! Come to me all ye that are troubled and heavy laden. Come condemned and crimson red. Come contrite and confessing. And be sure to return clean as undyed cotton. Nothing else can make us fitting to stand before God; apart of the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, which purifies us from all sin (1 John 1:7).
Quote for the Day: "Come to me all ye that are troubled and heavy laden. Come condemned and crimson red. Come contrite and confessing. And be sure to return clean as undyed cotton.” (Simon Olatunji)
Prayer: O Lord, let the blood of your dear Son Jesus Christ always avail for me Amen.
With all my love and prayer,
Rev Simon Wale Olatunji, PhD
The Darling Bishop (DaBishop),
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