Redemption is Already

Today’s Bible Reading:  Isaiah 43-45; 1 Peter 4

Journal Entry on a passage from today’s reading:

Topic: Salvation

SCRIPTURE:  Isaiah 44:22

I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions,

And like a cloud, your sins.

Return to Me, for I have redeemed you." (Isa 44:22 NKJV)

OBSERVATION:

The phrasing of this verse of scripture indicates a past tense. The Lord has already blotted out and, like a thick cloud, covered your transgressions; like a cloudy morning mist dissipates, so your sins have already vanished from the sight of the Lord. The only thing you need do to realize this redemption is to return to the Lord—to repent—to change direction and come to the Lord.

APPLICATION:

So much of the time we think that when we repent then we are redeemed and our sins “blotted out.” We think that it is our action of turning to the Lord that activates our salvation. In reality, however, redemption and forgiveness of sin are already taken care of; I just have not accepted or acknowledged it until I “return”—repent and come to Him. My actions have nothing to do with it, it is all God. I just have to come to the place of knowing it and believing it.

PRAYER:

Thank You Lord for the salvation You have already secured for me.

Through Christ. Amen.  –AP