“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags…” (Isaiah 64:6a)
As we study about self-righteousness this week, we hope to learn of our need to remove “self” from that phrase. As a child of God, our life no longer revolves around us. It is about loving God and others.
Before we were saved, we might have thought we were pretty good. We may have even compared ourselves with others in the church. We didn’t see inside our heart like God does.. When a holy God flashed the light of His love in there, all He saw was the filth of our sins. As today’s verse states, He saw something resembling dirty and smelly old rags.
When you stand before God, you won’t want to be dressed in the rags of your own righteousness. Be able to exchange them for a white robe by coming to God while there is still time. The invitation is there for all who want to burn those old rags: “Come 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).
Sue Winchester
Missouri
PRAY TOGETHER: Pray for the Heath and Joni Hubbard family, recently reassigned to Japan.
