They’ll go from being soaked in the blood of injustice, to being dressed in light, white, wool.īlood is hard to get out of clothes, hard to scrub off of hands. Their evil deeds will be removed from before His eyes. And the thing He does will make the stain of their sin as white as fresh-fallen snow. God promises Israel in Isaiah 1 that though they’ve dipped their hands in blood and then had the audacity to fold them in prayer, though they deserve to be struck, humiliated, judged, sentenced and punished, yet there is another way. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.” (1:18) What would you give to be free from the stain of sin? From the blood of this world splattered all over you because of sin? What would you give to be able to look at God with your eyes open? To meet His gaze without shame? "The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground." (Gen 4:10) He says, “Your sins are like scarlet… they are red like crimson.” God sees sin as a wound, as a crime. Should He listen to us? Should He hear our prayers after all we’ve done and not-done, said and left unsaid? Should He not strike us for our presumption, punish us for our sins and embarrass us for our arrogance? He sees the blood on our hands when we fold them in prayer. Blood tickling your forearm as it puddles around your elbow. Imagine they’re your hands: dip in blood and now assume a posture of prayer. Hands full of blood? Imagine that old picture, “ Praying Hands.” Now dip those hands in blood. …even though you make many prayers, I will not listen your hands are full of blood.” (1:13, 15) ![]() It’s that they’re so sinful and yet they pretend to be faithfully worshipping Him: “I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. In Isaiah 1, God brings His complaint against Israel. God alone knows the good we could be doing with all the time we spend consuming media, and He knows what the gift of our attention perpetuates and what happened to the people we could have been helping instead. God sees the effects of our ingratitude on the people around us, and what they do to others for being unappreciated. ![]() God knows where your shirt was made and by whom, under what conditions. And, again, God knows the effect of all our thoughts on ourselves and on the people and the world around us. He knows the good things we intend but then don’t follow through with. He knows the inner-dialogue we attempt to suppress. And He knows every consequence our words and our silences produced. God sees and knows what we have said, what we said and didn’t mean, what we should have said but didn’t. And He knows all the consequences of our action and our inaction. He sees and knows what we have done, what we did half-heartedly, what we should have done but didn’t. God sees “the things now hidden in darkness.” God knows “the purposes of the heart.” (1Cor 4:5) God sees and knows all sin. ![]() Do you ever wonder what God sees when He looks down upon us?
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