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Whiteout
The
Associated Press ran a headline this week stating: “Record-Smashing
Snow Storm Blankets East Coast.”
With the 10 inches to 20 inches that fell this week across a large portion
of the U.S. East Coast,
Philadelphia
,
Baltimore
and
Washington
have received more snow this winter than any time
since record-keeping began. *
Have
you ever heard the term “WHITEOUT” ?
Perhaps the affected areas have experienced
this phenomenon. Some
may not know what the term means.
The word has several uses:
1.
(noun) an arctic atmospheric condition with clouds over snow produce a uniform whiteness and objects are
difficult to see; occurs when the light reflected off the snow equals the light coming through the clouds
2.
(verb) lose daylight visibility in heavy fog, snow, or rain
3.
(verb) cover
up with a liquid correction fluid *
As
the white blanket of snow falls across the land (and
perhaps our own back yards), consider a wonderful word
picture of the forgiveness of God...
"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.”
– Isaiah 1:18
The
Lord’s description of the sins of
Israel
also describes our OWN.
OUR sins “are like scarlet,” “red like
crimson.” OUR
lives are stained with our mistakes – things that
we’ve done (1 John 3:4) or left undone (James 4:17).
And, “the wages of sin is DEATH” (Romans
6:23).
Yet
the Lord’s message to Israel was that if they would
consider their situation (“reason with God”) and
turn to Him in humility and penitence, He would
forgive their sins and wash them away, leaving them “as
white as snow.”
He’ll do the same for YOU and for me –
IF–
we
will respond to Him on His terms!
God
loved the world so much that He gave His one and only
Son to die for our sins.
The blood that Jesus shed in His death is the
payment for our redemption.
OUR sins can be washed away through the
blood of Jesus leaving our souls “as white as snow.”
He
has promised to cleanse us from sin when we respond to
Him by:
believing
and trusting Christ (Acts 16:30-31), turning from our
sins in repentance
(Acts 17:30-31), confessing
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and being
baptized
(immersed) in the name of Jesus for the forgiveness of
sins (Acts 2:38).
He has promised to CONTINUE to cleanse the
child of God from sin AS HE CONTINUES to walk in
the light of His Word (1 John 1:7).
We
ALL need a whiteout!
Won’t YOU allow
God to cleanse you from your sins so that you can be
“as white as snow”?
David
A. Sargent, Minister
Church
of Christ at Creekwood
1901
Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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information on ministries collecting funds to help in Haiti, click this
link: http://www.christianchronicle.org/article2158985
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