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Sure Remedy for Sin, January 17
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.
Isaiah 1:18
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That which should cause us the deepest joy is the fact that God forgives
sin. If we take Him at His word and forsake our sins, He is ready and
willing to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He will give us a pure
heart and the abiding presence of His Spirit, for Jesus lives to intercede for
us. But ... spiritual things are spiritually discerned. It is a living, active,
abiding faith that discerns the will of God, that appropriates the promises,
and profits by the truths of His word. It is not because we are righteous,
but because we are dependent, faulty, erring, and helpless ourselves, that
we must rely upon Christ’s righteousness, and not upon our own.
When you receive the words of Christ as if they were addressed to
you personally, when each applies the truth to himself as if he were the
only sinner on the face of the earth for whom Christ died, you will learn
to claim by faith the merits of the blood of a crucified and risen Saviour....
Many feel that their faults of character make it impossible for them to
meet the standard that Christ has erected, but all that such ones have to
do is to humble themselves at every step under the mighty hand of God.
Christ does not estimate the man by the amount of work he does, but by
the spirit in which the work is performed.
When He sees men lifting the burdens, trying to carry them in lowli-
ness of mind, with distrust of self and with reliance upon Him, He adds to
their work His perfection and sufficiency, and it is accepted of the Father.
We are accepted in the Beloved. The sinner’s defects are covered by the
perfection and fullness of the Lord our Righteousness. Those who with
sincere will, with contrite heart, are putting forth humble efforts to live up
to the requirements of God, are looked upon by the Father with pitying,
tender love; He regards such as obedient children, and the righteousness
of Christ is imputed unto them.
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