The Twenty Fifth of March.I SHALL BE WHITER THAN SNOW --- Psalm 51:7."Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." --- Psalm 51:7. "Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities." --- Psalm 51:9. "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. "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee." --- Isaiah 44:22. We must not keep away from Christ on account of our stumblings and manifold faults. This would cast us under the law again, and bind us under condemnation; but we should humble ourselves directly before God, and seek earnestly for pardon through the blood of Christ. The longer we delay this, the worse our cause will grow, and the sooner it is done, the sooner we shall have forgiveness. The Lord not imputing those sins to us which are sincerely repented of, our soul returns to its rest again; and, instead of falling into carnal insecurity (as some may think), it shall rather strengthen our faith, and make us more watchful. Hasten, therefore and come as soon and as well as thou canst. He will receive thee, if thou canst but creep. O Lord, I fall before thy face; Jesus, my God, thy blood alone |