Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Wednesday May 15, 2019 |
Morning Time: 4:43 AM PST
"All that believe are justified." --Acts 13:39
The believer in Christ receives a present justification. Faith does not
produce this fruit by-and-by, but now. So far as justification is the
result of faith, it is given to the soul in the moment when it closes with
Christ, and accepts Him as its all in all. Are they who stand before the throne
of God justified now?--so are we, as truly and as clearly justified as they who
walk in white and sing melodious praises to celestial harps. The thief upon the
cross was justified the moment that he turned the eye of faith to Jesus; and
Paul, the aged, after years of service, was not more justified than was the
thief with no service at all. We are to-day accepted in the Beloved,
to-day absolved from sin, to-day acquitted at the bar of God. Oh!
soul-transporting thought! There are some clusters of Eshcol's vine which we
shall not be able to gather till we enter heaven; but this is a bough which
runneth over the wall. This is not as the corn of the land, which we can never
eat till we cross the Jordan; but this is part of the manna in the wilderness, a
portion of our daily nutriment with which God supplies us in our journeying to
and fro. We are now--even now pardoned; even now are our sins put
away; even now we stand in the sight of God accepted, as though we had
never been guilty. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which
are in Christ Jesus." There is not a sin in the Book of God, even now, against
one of His people. Who dareth to lay anything to their charge? There is neither
speck, nor spot, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing remaining upon any one believer
in the matter of justification in the sight of the Judge of all the earth. Let
present privilege awaken us to present duty, and now, while life lasts, let us
spend and be spent for our sweet Lord Jesus.
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