PUT it home to the conscience of any person that is not saved. Has God got a pair of scales? Come then in the name of the Lord Jesus, and you are perfectly welcome to all that Christ has been given. Christ took my place in judgment, and I am to take His place in glory. “We become the righteousness of God in Him”― that lasts forever. Men suppose their minds are capable of forming a just estimate of God. Now God says, “My ways are unsearchable.” Christ is earth-rejected but heaven-owned. But there is another thing connected with this. I find God has been before man, and that if you come before God you must come in His way.
People generally begin with “I,” and talk about religion, “I desired to be instructed.” But. God says, “I have done the work. I sent My Son; gave Him a cup of wrath to drink, and raised Him again. If so, let Me be the first poor sinner.” God ought to be the very first person to be trusted! “Has God taken the whole thing into His hand, and left Me nothing to do?” Nothing. What can you do when Christ has done it all? What could you do if Christ had not done it all? How could you meet His mind about God? about yourself as a sinner? The conscience gets scared if you get one thought about God. “What I have presented before you,” God says, “enables you to be as perfectly satisfied in My presence as I am.”
Here is the message he had got, that God did not need reconciling, but man needed to be reconciled. Now it is a very humbling thing for a poor sinner to have to go to God and say. “Really there was such suspicion of Thee in my heart”; but most easy, if I go on that ground that He hath made Him sin for us; and that God hath shown Himself out in this way. If my soul can take that, and say it is true, I have got two most astonishing things brought before me. I can say to God, “I can trust Thee to take away all that lurking suspicion that is constantly stealing up in my heart, because Thou didst make Him sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.”
G. V. W.