Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Monday April 16, 2018 |
Morning Time: 1:04 AM PST
"The precious blood of Christ." --1 Peter 1:19
Standing at the foot of the cross, we see hands, and feet, and side, all
distilling crimson streams of precious blood. It is "precious" because of its
redeeming and atoning efficacy. By it the sins of Christ's people
are atoned for; they are redeemed from under the law; they are reconciled to
God, made one with Him. Christ's blood is also "precious" in its cleansing
power; it "cleanseth from all sin." "Though your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be as white as snow." Through Jesus' blood there is not a spot left upon
any believer, no wrinkle nor any such thing remains. O precious blood, which
makes us clean, removing the stains of abundant iniquity, and permitting us to
stand accepted in the Beloved, notwithstanding the many ways in which we have
rebelled against our God. The blood of Christ is likewise "precious" in its
preserving power. We are safe from the destroying angel under the
sprinkled blood. Remember it is God's seeing the blood which is the true
reason for our being spared. Here is comfort for us when the eye of faith is
dim, for God's eye is still the same. The blood of Christ is "precious" also in
its sanctifying influence. The same blood which justifies by taking away
sin, does in its after-action, quicken the new nature and lead it onward to
subdue sin and to follow out the commands of God. There is no motive for
holiness so great as that which streams from the veins of Jesus. And "precious,"
unspeakably precious, is this blood, because it has an overcoming power.
It is written, "They overcame through the blood of the Lamb." How could they do
otherwise? He who fights with the precious blood of Jesus, fights with a weapon
which cannot know defeat. The blood of Jesus! sin dies at its presence, death
ceases to be death: heaven's gates are opened. The blood of Jesus! we shall
march on, conquering and to conquer, so long as we can trust its power!
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