Let Us Reason Together

 

Isa 1:18 "Come now, and 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 be as wool

This is one of the most revered passages in all of Christendom and rightly so. We find it unreasonable that God would be willing to forgive our sins through faith in the sacrificial death of His Son. We tend to think we have to do something on our own to earn it, but HE freely offers forgiveness through His loving sacrifice of His Son! Some of you will remember a praise chorus done by the Maranatha singers years ago that went like this:

White as snow, white as snow,

Though my sins were as scarlet,

Lord I know, Lord I know,

That I’m clean and forgiven.

Through the power of Your blood,

Through the wonder of Your love,

Through faith in You I know that I can be:

White as snow, white as snow, white as snow.

 

But why are sins colored red here? Why not black? Well for one thing, the sins of Judah at the time of Isaiah writing this included the brutal practice of child sacrifice. God wants us to be thinking blood here….innocent blood.

 

He “reasons” with us that even though we may be guilty of spilling innocent blood, (one of the things that He hates according to Prov Pr 6:16,17) the innocent blood of His Son Jesus will cover us. 1Jo 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

 

In the gloom and doom of the prophet Isaiah we often find these gospel gems, these beacons of light. Seek them out and cling to them for they are sure promises from a God who loves you so much that beyond our own human reason, He sacrificed His only Son to pay for our sins, that we may have eternal fellowship with Him in heaven.