This is amazing on so many levels. The first striking thing is that God wants to argue with us. He's not just saying "I forgive you, forget your sins" he's going one further. He understands that as humans it takes us allot to let go. We cling on to our pain and our mistakes and we obsess over them. God wants us to tell him about them, tell him why we feel hopeless, tell him why we feel like we're not good enough. What's more, he's arguing with us as equals whilst we are still stained red as crimson. That is the beauty of his mercy.
The second striking thing about that verse is that no sin is too big. Nothing can separate us from God. Whether we hurt ourselves, or others. Whether we've been hurt and feel dirty and abused, or whether we've hurt God and pushed him to arms length. No matter how red we've stained ourselves he will make us clean and pure until we see ourselves as as precious as if we were looking through his eyes.
The last, and perhaps most beautiful thing, that strikes me about this verse is the prophetic nature of it. This verse in Isaiah, thousands of years BC, speaks of Jesus and his amazing sacrifice for us. Jesus was stained red with blood for us. Jesus was the lamb. Though our sins stain us red, the lamb of God will save us. Jesus will save us. Jesus was always planned. Our forgiveness and redemption was always planned.
That is how precious we are in God's eyes. Our value is far more than rubies or pearls. That God so loved the world that he gave his only son. God so loved you, that while you were still stained red as crimson he sent the lamb of God.
Nothing you can do can ruin his love for you. Nothing you can do can damage you in his eyes. We are never damaged goods to God.
"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." - Romans 8:38-39
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