White As Snow

From: Gospel Light: Volume 2 (1912)

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Duration: 3min

• 3 min. read • grade level: 4

(ISAIAH 1:18¹⁸Come 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. (Isaiah 1:18)). ISA 1:18¹⁸Come 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. (Isaiah 1:18)

GOOD character is nothing with God. There is not a man that would have all he has done, thought, and said, written on the wall of his house. But it is all out before God.

Leave a man alone for two or three hours, and he must think of something, but he will never think of Christ. When you come to know the real condition of man's heart, Christ has no place in it. It is not Christ he loves at all. Christ came, and passed through this world to carry God's love to every one. He came to sinners in their sins, because they needed Him.

Christ comes and shows us what we are.

The law shows us what we ought to be. If the light comes in, the person is convicted, but Christ is there in perfect grace. I was under death, sin, the curse, and wrath. He came under death, sin, the curse, and wrath.

When I come before the judgment-seat of Christ, whom shall I see there? The Man that put away my sins. God would have us happy, happy in a holy walk, happy -with Himself; and in order that I may be happy, He has put away all my sins, and made me white as snow. Then I can walk with God happily.

The glory is in the Person who bore my sins. I like to look at the glory now; every ray of it is the proof that my sins are gone (1 John 3:5⁵And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. (1 John 3:5)). 1JO 3:5⁵And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. (1 John 3:5)I look at it, think of it, delight in it, and then I am changed into the same image from glory to glory (2 Cor 3:18). 2CO 3:18¹⁸But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2 Corinthians 3:18)My heart has confidence in Him: that is faith, and I follow Him, and see where He is, and get practically like Him.

God has proved His righteousness by taking Christ to His right hand. My sins are not only put away, but I am in Christ, made the righteousness of God in Him. I have sins, but God says: “I have righteousness for you." Don't tell me I can't know it. Why, Christ says I shall “At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you” (John 14:20²⁰At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (John 14:20)). JOH 14:20²⁰At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (John 14:20) I believe what Christ says.

Christ is coming, and I believe the moment is hastening on. Supposing He came tonight. Well, I say, “Thank God, His first coming redeemed me. He is coming again to take me to be with Him in the same glory as Himself.”

What we want to learn is the wonderfulness of this love. “We have known and believed the love that God hath to us" (1 John 4:16¹⁶And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16)). 1JO 4:16¹⁶And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16)

We shall see face to face Him whose visage was more marred than any man's. He washed me from my sins the first time He came, and He is only waiting to come and take me to Himself. J. N. D.

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