What's with the Filthy Rags? Is it you!?

Looking down this lovely street and wondering what beauty is beyond.

But maybe it is one of us? Another sinner! 

Yes, we are all sinners!

Isaiah 64:4-9

..."For from days of old they have not heard or perceived by ear,
 

Nor has the eye seen a God besides You,
 

Who acts in behalf of one who waits for Him.

You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness,


Who remembers You in Your ways.


Behold, You were angry, for we sinned,


We continued in our sins for a long time;


Yet shall we be saved?

For all of us have become like one who is unclean


And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;

And all of us wither like a leaf,


And our wrongdoings, like the wind, take us away.

There is no one who calls on Your name,


Who stirs himself to take hold of You;


For You have hidden Your face from us


And have surrendered us to the power of our wrongdoings.

But now, Lord, You are our Father;


We are the clay, and You our potter,


And all of us are the work of Your hand.

Do not be angry beyond measure, Lord,


Nor remember wrongdoing forever."...

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So now look down the lovely street and what do you see?  

Is it you?  

Are you one of His?

This is how you become one of His: 

Romans 10:1-13. "Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation. 

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge. For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. 

For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

For Moses writes of the righteousness that is based on the Law, that the person who performs them will live by them. 

But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: 

“Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down), or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).” 

But what does it say? 

“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, 

that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 

for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. 

For the Scripture says, 

“Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.”

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; for “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”...

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Are you one of His?