Sin..and sins...

When a sinner comes to Jesus, he comes just as he is.  Filthy and wretched as he may be, his most paramount need is not reformation, education, or recreation but regeneration.  He needs to be born from above.  In Titus 3:5, the Apostle Paul called it the "washing of regeneration".  This washing is two fold and is set forth in Isaiah 1:18.  First, when we come to Christ to be saved, we may have many sins but the issue at this point is "sin" not sins.  For the number is not the problem but our nature.  What we are is to be dealt with here rather than what we have done.  Isaiah 1:18 has the answer ....and I throw in a Whooop!! right here for this is good!  "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow".  When I think of snow that is stained, I think that it can be cleansed one time....when we are born again.  But! When we sin and come short of His glory after we are saved, we can appropriate the second half of this verse.  "Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool"  Wool can be washed over and over again.  What a glorious provision that has been given in the person of the LORD Jesus Christ!  He therefore pardons not only my "sin", but also my "sins"!!!  Bless His Name!!