Stop Trying to Fix Yourself

​Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. (Isaiah 1:18)
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If ​God is omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful), and omnipresence (present everywhere at all times), then why do we live as though God cannot see or know what we are doing.  When we engage in sin, we know God sees us.  He is fully aware of our thoughts and the sinful desires of our hearts.  We know this because our conscience tells us so.  When we do evil, when we commit sin, our conscience (the laws of God written upon the hearts of men) accuses us before God (Rom 2:15-16).  Yet so many try and suppress their conscience or they try and numb it though drugs or drink or more wild sinful living.  Yet this kind of response toward a guilt-plagued conscience only makes matters worse by either driving us toward an early grave through unconscionable living or by driving us into a deep dark pit of despair.  It’s the equivalent of trying to fix a leaky damn with bubble gum.  It may work for a while, but eventually the crack will only get worse and then the damn will burst.  For this reason God says, “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD…”  Stop trying to fix your damaged conscience yourself.  It will never work because the problem is not that you need to repair your behavior but that you need your damaged relationship with God repaired.  Thus, God bids us to come to him and reason with him so that “though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”