Isaiah 57:14 – Sin Cleared Away
What we have here is a picture of sin cleared away. It’s hard to get to God when the way is blocked with sin. And believe me, friends, we have much sin in our lives, and it needs to be heaped up and gotten out of the way. But we are dead in our sins, and we can’t move them out of the way. Jesus must remove that sin. Big sinners, foolish sinners, tired sinners, polluted sinners, guilty sinners, poor sinners, persistent sinners, hard sinners, despairing sinners – is there any hope for them? Jesus died in the place of sinners, the death that sinners deserve. He takes all that blocks your access to the Father, and He moves it so that anyone who wishes to come to God through Him may come. Because we are great sinners, Jesus must pile it up high. But for Him there is no problem. Because as much as sin in our lives can pile up, we have the promise in the Bible, that where sin has abounded, grace has more abounded. We find that, in Romans 5:20, no matter how great your sin, Jesus will cover it. Jesus will plow it out of the way if you will come to Him.
Jesus is the way. He is the road. He is the street. He is the highway. And He has made a way to His Father through Who He is and what He has done. What are the obstructions that this verse talks about? They are problems within us. The problem is we each have a bad heart. We have cold, dead, hard, stony hearts. That is the way we are without Jesus Christ. That is how we begin our life. That is how we come out from the womb. That is how we continue to live. We are full of sin. These are stumbling blocks indeed. They need to be cleared out of the way. And that is what Jesus does by His person and work. He gives us a new heart. And what about our bad record? Jesus says, ‘I’ll take that. Here, you take mine.’ He switches with us so that the stumbling block is clear, the way is open, the obstacles are removed, and the sinner is redeemed. Christian, all this Jesus has done for you, think about it again and delight in it!
Questions
- What blocks our way to God?
- How does Jesus deal with it?
Prayer Points
- Give thanks that Christ deals with sin.
- Use prayer points from your congregation.
- Pray for family matters.