by Oswald Chambers
To be an Uncommon Believer….Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….Be the Voice of the LORD
"For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." Hebrews 10:14
We trample the blood of the Son of God under foot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only explanation of the forgiveness of God and of the unfathomable depth of His forgetting is the Death of Jesus Christ. Our repentance is merely the outcome of our personal realization of the Atonement which He has worked out for us. "Christ Jesus . . . is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." When we realize that Christ is made all this to us, the boundless joy of God begins; wherever the joy of God is not present, the death sentence is at work.
It
does not matter who or what we are, there is absolute reinstatement
into God by the death of Jesus Christ and by no other way, not because
Jesus Christ pleads, but because He died. It is not earned, but accepted.
All the pleading which deliberately refuses to recognize the Cross is
of no avail; it is battering at another door than the one which Jesus
has opened. I don't want to come that way, it is too humiliating to be
received as a sinner. "There is none other Name . . ." The apparent heartlessness of God is the expression of His real heart, there is boundless entrance in His way. "We have forgiveness through His blood." Identification with the death of Jesus Christ means identification with Him to the death of everything that never was in Him.
God is justified in saving bad men only as He makes them good. Our Lord does not pretend we are all right when we are all wrong. The Atonement is a propitiation whereby God through the death of Jesus makes an unholy man holy.
When
we know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, it means we are
free from anxiety, free from carefulness, so that, during the
twenty-four hours of the day, we do what we ought to do all the time,
with the strength of life bubbling up with real spontaneous joy.