July 17

John 2:24‑25
THIS was not knowledge acquired by personal experience of the sins and errors of fallen humanity, for He was ever “the Holy One of God” (Luke 4:3434Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God. (Luke 4:34)). Neither was it an understanding that resulted from the study of some form of philosophy or psychology, for He was not a product of the schools or a disciple of some adept in scientific lore (John 7:1515And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? (John 7:15)). He knew what was in the hearts and minds of men because He was God manifest in flesh, He who of old could say, “I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins” (Jer. 17:1010I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. (Jeremiah 17:10)).
“My rescue from eternal woe,
My every blessing while below,
My life, my joy, my heaven, I owe
To God’s forgiving love.
I have no merit of my own;
In Christ I stand—in Him alone—.
Complete before Jehovah’s throne,
Through God’s forgiving love.
Oh, wondrous grace! that Thou wilt take,
Yea, prize a heart that sin doth break,
Accepting it for Jesus’s sake,
In Thy forgiving love.”