The Lord Be With You Today!
Isaiah 59:12b-13
Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities:
rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God,
inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.
(In their desperation that the Lord had not answered their calls for deliverance
from their plight as exiles in Babylon, God's people finally began to look inward
and admitted what the Lord had told them was true,
that they were far from God, that they were living a lie as to their devotion to Him.
As we look inward and remember who we are without the Lord's forgiveness,
as we look at our filthy rags of what we call righteousness
we see the true state of our hopeless condition,
a state of sin and separation from God, the worst possible state of mankind.
In that condition, it is impossible to please Him, to do enough to make up for
or to bridge the impassable chasm that separates us from Holy God.
Although we humans tend to put sin into categories,
judging some sins as far worse than others, the Lord looks on all sin as sin,
and that sin, regardless of our human perspective about it,
causes separation from Him.
His holiness, His righteousness, His complete and magnificent goodness
cannot abide in the presence of sin. Period.
We can only remove ourselves from the DNA of our sin nature
by looking to the Lord, repenting, receiving His forgiveness,
and allowing His Own righteousness,
the righteousness that He offers to us,
to become our own and to cover us as we live life in Him.)
May the Lord richly bless you this day!
In Christ's love,
Blessings!
Sally
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