Brand new, white as snow! Live loved

 Isaiah 1:18 ““Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”

2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,the new creation has come:The old has gone, the new is here!”

We are made brand new!!    We are forgiven for All our sins!   Jesus died once, for All sin!!   I remember the feeling I had the first time I sinned, after my “revelation”,  that I was forgiven.  I felt ashamed and dirty again.   I was identifying with my sin not with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.     I have to continually remind myself who I am in Jesus , so I don’t become self condemning.     When we get to Heaven we will be done with sin.  Praise God!  Until that time we will have to deal with our propensity to sin.    Shake it off!   Repent and try, try, try again.  Accept the forgiveness Jesus died to give you.  We are Made white as snow, we are new creations.   Live that  way!   Live loved!!  

No matter how unloveable you may “ feel”.  Know you are forgiven, made new and deeply loved!!

You look down you go down

 Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”   I take such comfort in this verse.   I have been, “burning the candle at both ends”again lately.   Therefore I am a bit extra tired.  When I get tired,  I  can feel a bit hopeless.     When I feel hopeless I look down.  Looking down never works well for me.  I teach skiing and snowboarding.   I tell my students, “when you look down, you go down!”  Today, let’s look up, get up and stay up.   Let’s trust God with all our hearts and lean not on our own understanding, acknowledging Him in all our ways to keep looking up, He will make our paths straight!!