| We who know the Saviour are exhorted to “come boldly unto the throne of grace.” For the believer, God’s throne is no longer a throne of judgment, which we must fear. Rather, because our sins have been forever put away by the blood of Christ, it is now a throne of grace! “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” And our verse does not say that we are to “come boldly,” in all confidence and outspokenness, in order to ask for mercy and to hope for grace in our “time of need.” Rather, it says that we come “that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” “This is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us: and if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.” Like David, we know the Lord as “Thou that hearest prayer.” “Ah, Lord God! Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee.” “Pour out your heart before Him.” |
