Isaiah 1:18 "Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool."

Well I have lived most of my life in lower Alabama until just a little over a month ago. My wife and I moved to north Louisiana and we have seen some things over here that we haven't seen in a long time. SNOW!! We have been here a month and we have seen snow twice. It would have taken a couple of years to see snow twice in Alabama. My wife and I were driving around in the snow and I told her that I was going to steal something that she said to me in the car. Her exact words were "snow makes everything look so beautiful". When she said that Isaiah 1:18 came in my mind and it literally blew me away. Have you ever wondered how God could forgive you for some of the things that you have done in the past. I mean I can understand God forgiving me for stealing a piece of candy when I was little but what about the other things I have done. I have done somethings in my life that I am not proud of and how can He forgive me for doing them. Then I remember 1 Peter 3:18 "For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God". He died once to cover all of my sins and make me clean. He doesn't have to die a more brutal death for my "bigger" sins. He doesn't have to die again and again for the sins I will commit tomorrow or next week or next year, He paid the price once and that was enough. His blood was enough for everything that you and I could ever commit. Its just like the snow my wife was talking about the other day. We saw everything from nice two story houses to some homes that have been run down for years, but the funny thing is they all looked really pretty covered in snow. Snow makes everything look so nice and inviting. Our lives were nothing but old raggedy houses until the snow "blood" of Christ was scattered all over them. Today the snow had melted off of those old homes and the true colors presented themselves. The were nothing but "scarlet" homes. We all have two eternal choices in life. You either have Heaven or Hell, there is no in between and there is no option of getting out of one of those. I want you to look deep into your own life today and I want you to consider where you would go today if this was your last. What does your "home" look like? Is it rugged and ran down? Does it not look so nice from the road or are you covered in the "snow"? God's clouds are ready to rain down the snow that you need on your life today.

"God I thank you so much for how you show yourself to us. Thank you for showing our salvation to us. Thank you for being so willing to cover us in your snow. Please let us remember these snowy days even during the hot summer days. Let us remember that your love is so much more than we could ever ask for. Thank you for everything that you have shown me in the past couple of days."