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Swept Away!

We like a good love story where the couple is swept up in love.

We don’t like a tragic story where someone is swept out to sea.

We like a story of enlightenment where ignorance is swept away by knowledge.

We don’t like a story of deception where truth is swept apart by lies.

We like a heroic battle where good prevails and evil is swept up in defeat.

We don’t like a story of injustice where wrongdoings are swept under the rug.

We like a rags to riches story where poverty is swept away by prosperity.

We don’t like a story of despair where hope is swept aside by loss.

How would you like a story where loss could be swept away by redemption?

Here’s the deal.  We’ve all brought loss upon ourselves because of the wrongs we’ve committed.  These wrongs are called offenses and they hang over us like a thick cloud.  Yet in the midst of that thick cloud, redemption is possible!  How?

Here’s how:  “I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.”  (Isa 44:22)

If we try to sweep our offenses away, there’s absolutely nothing we can do to cause it to happen.  But there is one who can!  The verse above was spoken by God.  He alone can sweep away our offenses.  He does so by sweeping them on to the Savior.  And, as a cloud is swept away and is no more, so it is with our offenses.  Once swept away, they are no more.

And when that happens, loss is swept away in redemption!

 

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