and your sins like mist;
return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Winter can be a time where we may experience days of gloomy, cloudy weather. We can do nothing to change it, change the weather pattern on our own. One can easily become depressed when we experience extended periods without sunshine. So it is with our sins. They, and the guilt from them can hang over us like a cloud and cause us to be depressed. We can do nothing on our own to take this away. Some try, through acts of kindness or service, but we cannot effectually remove the consequences and the clouds on our own.
Charles Spurgeon, in his evening devotional for today speaks of --"blotting out." "God himself appears upon the scene, and in divine benignity, instead of manifesting his anger, reveals his grace: he at once and forever effectually removes the mischief, not by blowing away the cloud, but by blotting it out from existence once for all. Against the justified man no sin remains, the great transaction of the cross has eternally removed his transgressions from him. On Calvary's summit the great deed, by which the sin of all the chosen was forever put away, was completely and effectually performed."
What is the condition of your heart today? What is the spiritual forecast?
Reading this verse, the old hymn "My Sins are Blotted Out, I Know" came to mind. Instead of clouds and gloom let it be joy and peace. May God clear away the clouds and let His Sonshine fill your soul.
Once my heart was black, but now what joy,
My sins are blotted out, I know!
I have peace that nothing can destroy,
My sins are blotted out, I know!
My sins are blotted out, I know!
My sins are blotted out, I know!
They are buried in the depths of the deepest sea:
My sins are blotted out, I know!
Blessings,
Mike
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Isaiah 44:21-23 (ESV) The LORD Redeems Israel
and Israel, for you are my servant;
I formed you; you are my servant;
O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
22 I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud
and your sins like mist;
return to me, for I have redeemed you.
23 Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it;
shout, O depths of the earth;
break forth into singing, O mountains,
O forest, and every tree in it!
For the LORD has redeemed Jacob,
and will be glorified[a] in Israel.
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