Repent and be clean!

Today's scripture mastery is Isaiah 1:18

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

The gospel is all about giving us second chances.  We are all not perfect.  We all sin.  And sometimes we do more than the little sins--sometimes are sins are "as scarlet"  God still invites us to come to Him and repent.  Through the power of the atonement, all our sins can be cleaned, and be as "white as snow"

I was reading this morning in the Book of Mormon about the sons of King Mosiah, who went to go preach the gospel to the Lamanites.  This is how it describes their mission to teach them (Alma 17:14-15)

 14 And assuredly it was great, for they had undertaken to preach the word of God to a wild and a hardened and a ferocious people; a people who delighted in murdering the Nephites, and robbing and plundering them; and their hearts were set upon riches, or upon gold and silver, and precious stones; yet they sought to obtain these things by murdering and plundering, that they might not labor for them with their own hands.

 15 Thus they were a very indolent people, many of whom did worship idols, and the curse of God had fallen upon them because of the traditions of their fathers; notwithstanding the promises of the Lord were extended unto them on the conditions of repentance.

I highlighted the last part of verse 15 because it illustrates my point.  God wants to bless all of us here on earth.  He wants to be able to help us all be clean of our sins.  To receive that relief and happiness that comes from repentance, we only need to "reason together" with God.  We need to come to Him in prayer.  We need to stop doing the things that are against His commandments (and he has promised to help us with that step if we come to Him.)  And we need to repent.

Let us all humbly come to God, and repent of our sins.  He can heal us.  He wants us all to be clean and happy.