Today I am again sharing "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers.
The Impartial Power of God
By one offering He has perfected forever those who are being
sanctified. —Hebrews 10:14
We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think
we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only reason for the
forgiveness of our sins by God, and the infinite depth of His promise to forget
them, is the death of Jesus Christ. Our repentance is merely the result of our
personal realization of the atonement by the Cross of Christ, which He has
provided for us. “…Christ Jesus…became for us wisdom from God— and
righteousness and sanctification and redemption…” (1 Corinthians 1:30). Once we
realize that Christ has become all this for us, the limitless joy of God begins
in us. And wherever the joy of God is not present, the death sentence is still
in effect.
No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right
standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ. God does
this, not because Jesus pleads with Him to do so but because He died. It cannot
be earned, just accepted. All the pleading for salvation which deliberately
ignores the Cross of Christ is useless. It is knocking at a door other than the
one which Jesus has already opened. We protest by saying, “But I don’t want to
come that way. It is too humiliating to be received as a sinner.” God’s
response, through Peter, is, “… there is no other name…by which we must be
saved” (Acts 4:12). What at first appears to be heartlessness on God’s part is
actually the true expression of His heart. There is unlimited entrance His way.
“In Him we have redemption through His blood…” (Ephesians 1:7). To identify
with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was
never a part of Him.
God is just in saving bad people only as He makes them good.
Our Lord does not pretend we are all right when we are all wrong. The atonement
by the Cross of Christ is the propitiation God uses to make unholy people holy.
HE made 'unholy people' holy! HE sees everyone of us as MOST precious and valuable! The more that we meditate on these TRUTHS, the stronger our faith in the Word becomes! It's past time, right now, to take the blinders OFF and get with God's program! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "No Reason To Hide!":
Shalom in Him!
