My Lord and Savior

it has been a good while since i have taken the time to write… for no other reason than sure laziness…. for not making time to express my sheer gratefulness to the one who has blessed me beyond my comprehension.  For the past month i have been thinking a lot about the concept of a crimson stain.

I have done my fair share of reading lately and am currently reading a book called Crazy Love (I highly suggest it).  It is a book about the “crazy” love that our Abba Father has for us…. his dear dear children… there are so many statements that just really pierced my heart.. my soul within has been challenged and I’m just now half way through the book… so i feel like i will have to write another blog just to explain how the whole book impacted my life.. side note sorry… now back to what I had felt lead to write about.

Every time I hear Jesus Paid it All… my heart is broken over and over again… and all i can do is stand in complete awe… The song talks about how Jesus has paid it all for us and how our sin has left a crimson stain on us… but we are washed as white as snow…. snow has been quite relevant in my life this winter for i have seen more snow the past 3 months then i have seen my entire life.. when you think about snow it’s quite a phenomenon within itself something so beautiful can fall from the sky… how just the right temperature can transform a drop of rain to a snow flake.. and how no two snowflakes look the same…and yet as beautiful as snow is… it can be so easily altered.

Imagine with me for a minute if i were to pour a liquid of some kind on a pile of snow the color of crimson (deep red).  The impact that color would have on that pile would be permanent… nothing you or i did could change the color of the snow back to the same pure white it once was… Now can you imagine the sin the we commit permanently stains us… we can never return to way we once were before sin. But unlike the snow…. we are washed clean.. clean of every crimson stain that covers us… and we are washed as white as snow…

Jesus has paid it all to remove these stains… and when i think about being as white as snow before my Lord’s eyes… it’s a concept that is hard to grasp.. i know this concept might seem elementary, but my life has forever been changed because of the love… this sacrifice.. that saved a person such as myself.. and it’s not just a onetime thing.. it’s for all eternity… its life ever lasting… not only did He die on the cross for me he raised himself from the dead.. and has prepared a place for me in Heaven..

I’m still in awe of how a God who created the Heavens and the Earth… cares so much about me to wash away all my sins and allow me to be as white as snow…. it challenges me to continue to see how i can serve this year for His Glory.

here is the song i was talking about…

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