You cannot wear Spider Webs!

Read this:

Isaiah 59:1-8 (NASB) 1 Behold, the Lord's hand is not so short That it cannot save; Nor is His ear so dull That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue mutters wickedness. 4 No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies; They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth. 6 Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And an act of violence is in their hands. (emphasis mine.) 7 Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their highways. 8 They do not know the way of peace, And there is no justice in their tracks; They have made their paths crooked, Whoever treads on them does not know peace.

What are you wearing right now while you read this post? That is a rhetorical question by the way... I want you to think in terms of what you depend on to "Cover" you. What do you think "covers" your more jacked-up aspects of your life? What covers your wrongs, your sins?

Is it your "goodness?" That would be you're a good person, try to do good, treat people nice, help old ladies across the street, be nice to strangers, and you recycle... Wow, you ARE good! I am surprised you aren't God Himself! I remember when I used to think I was "good." I realized a few years back that I am not at all good. The only good in me is what Jesus Christ grows in me through my study and relationship with Him. What about you? Most of us think we are "good enough" or a "pretty good person." But we are not good enough and when we think we are good enough, we are trying to wear cobwebs for clothing, and that won't work.

Isaiah 59:1-2 (NASB) 1 Behold, the Lord's hand is not so short That it cannot save; Nor is His ear so dull That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. (emphasis mine.)

We could try to fool God into believing we are "Wearing goodness as clothing" but that simply has no impact on God, because He's God! He see's our naked unrighteousness right through our spider's webs; however, it is our own iniquities (sins) that seperate us from God. He won't hear us and our sins are why His face is hidden from us. To be clothed in Christ's righteousness (true goodness) we must accept Him, claim Him, serve Him, repent of our sins TO Him.... daily. Sometimes even minute to minute we repent. Minute to minute we seek knowledge of and relationship with Jesus Christ. If we seek Him moment by moment we will find Him. If we pursue Jesus Christ moment by moment we will know Him better with each passing moment. If not, He will be hidden from us and we will grow cold in our spider's web coats...

There is absolutely hope for us... In the coming days you will hear more of this hope, and you will find help. In the meantime, go find your Bible... Read it. Pray to the Living God whose inspired Word was given to man so that we could read it and know it and to know Him. Many people died horribly gruesome deaths to bring us this Bible... It would defame their memories for us to allow our Bibles to gather dust in some unknown drawer... covered in cobwebs.