Whiter Than Snow

Today in one of our services we sung an old familiar hymn with the line, "are your garments spotless, are they white as snow?"  Immediately I thought of the white shirt I had worn the day before.

I didn't notice it until after we had left the house (doesn't it always seem to happen that way,) the faint stain on my white shirt.  I have washed that shirt, I have even bleached that particular stain numerous times, but all my efforts have been futile to make that one small spot as white as the rest of the shirt.

Even though I have spent a great deal of energy and done the very best I could, and the best I know how, I have been unable to remove the spot.  My efforts have fallen short.  If someone were to point out the stain to me, they would think me crazy if I replied, "Oh, my shirt is fine because I've done my best to get rid of the spot, and that's all that matters."

We can no more remove the spot of our sins from our own souls than I can that one tiny spot of stain from my shirt.  We must rely on the cleansing power of the Blood of the Lamb to cleanse us from our sin and make us "as white as snow."

I would join with Elisha Hoffman and ask, are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow?  Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
 

Are You Washed In the Blood?

by Elisha Hoffman  

Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing pow’r?

Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour?

Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

• Refrain:
  Are you washed in the blood,
  In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb?
  Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow?
  Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
  
  
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  "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