A YOUNG lady in Canada once said to me. “Before I came to your meetings my salvation was a rickety kind of a thing that I might have today and lose tomorrow.”
How many there are like this! They do not know what settled peace is, but are tossed up and down by every wind and storm that the devil sends to mar their joy.
Surely this is not as our precious Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, would have it. He spoke to His own of “Peace” and
“Fullness Of Joy.”
He said, “Let not your heart be troubled.”
Then why is it that you, trembling believer, have not this peace?
This young lady’s case may answer the question. She said, “I was looking within and trusting my feelings, which were always changing, instead of believing God’s Word that can never pass away, which speaks about the work of Christ which was finished on the cross.”
Here lies the secret. On the cross the sinners’ substitute—the spotless Lamb of God—cried with a loud voice, “It is finished”— words fraught with everlasting consolation to all who believe. For if the work was finished it was finished for them.
But is God satisfied? Upon this hangs our eternal blessing. Here is the triumphant answer. “But God raised Him from the dead” (Acts 13:3030But God raised him from the dead: (Acts 13:30)). Here is God’s seal upon the work accomplished at Calvary, and now God Himself declares that through this Man (Christ Jesus) is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by Him all that believe are justified from all things (Acts 13:38,3938Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. (Acts 13:38‑39)).
Is not this sufficient? Could anything be more plain and simple? Then why not rest your soul upon this testimony of God concerning His Son, and enjoy the perfect peace which follows.
And now the challenge comes from the very throne of God. “Who is he that condemneth?”
GOD IS THE JUSTIFIER.
Thank God for a salvation so complete. Doubt His word no longer. Let go all those God-dishonoring fears. Trust Him and His word: “He was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification. Therefore being justified by faith WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom. 4:25,25Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. (Romans 4:25) vs. 1).
J. T. M.