Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Tuesday September 25, 2018 |
Morning Time: 4:38 AM PST
"Just, and the justifier of him which believeth." --Romans 3:26
Being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Conscience accuses no
longer. Judgment now decides for the sinner instead of against him. Memory looks
back upon past sins, with deep sorrow for the sin, but yet with no dread of any
penalty to come; for Christ has paid the debt of His people to the last jot and
tittle, and received the divine receipt; and unless God can be so unjust as to
demand double payment for one debt, no soul for whom Jesus died as a substitute
can ever be cast into hell. It seems to be one of the very principles of our
enlightened nature to believe that God is just; we feel that it must be so, and
this gives us our terror at first; but is it not marvellous that this very same
belief that God is just, becomes afterwards the pillar of our confidence and
peace! If God be just, I, a sinner, alone and without a substitute, must be
punished; but Jesus stands in my stead and is punished for me; and now, if God
be just, I, a sinner, standing in Christ, can never be punished. God must change
His nature before one soul, for whom Jesus was a substitute, can ever by any
possibility suffer the lash of the law. Therefore, Jesus having taken the place
of the believer-- having rendered a full equivalent to divine wrath for all that
His people ought to have suffered as the result of sin, the believer can shout
with glorious triumph, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?"
Not God, for He hath justified; not Christ, for He hath died, "yea rather hath
risen again." My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a
sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being
unholy, He is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am, or
shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in
what He is now doing for me. On the lion of justice the fair maid of hope rides
like a queen.
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