Whiter than snow - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2026

Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness:
Psalm 51:7; 1 John 1:9

Whiter than snow
I like to recall the winters of my childhood and the games we played in the snow. There was no pleasure like it, but it took only a few hours and the snow was no longer brilliant white but dirty grey. What joy to discover next morning that fresh snow, beautifully white, had fallen! The snowmen, the toboggan slopes were covered over again. It was pure delight.

What a fine illustration of the forgiveness of sins! Our heart may be soiled by wrongdoing, but if we confess it, Jesus "covers" everything. His work on the cross accounted for all our sins: He bore them all. If we confess them to God, He forgives us, just as a father forgives his child, for the work of Christ cleanses us, like the snow covering the landscape.

Even if we are certain that God has forgiven us, we can sometimes find it difficult to accept the perfection of Christ's work and God's full forgiveness, especially when we have committed a sin that, to our mind, is serious. The apostle John affirms clearly, however: "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin" (1 John 1:7). There is no black list of sins that God would not forgive or for which we could redeem ourselves. It is not a case of feeling forgiven, but of believing God's promise.

The devil always seeks to condemn us and bind our sins on us. But God forgives; He frees us from them and remembers them no more (Hebrews 10:17).

Today's reading: 2 Chronicles 35:16-27 · Revelation 21:15-27