HAVE you noticed that the Epistle which deals with you as a responsible being before God, and proves that you have failed in that responsibility, is the very Epistle which reveals God come out, not to help you to fulfill your responsibility, but in grace to meet your need as having utterly failed, and as wholly unable to do any better?
It is in Romans we read that there is none that doeth good, and that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and that God, the righteous One, will render to every man according to his deeds; for there is no respect of persons with Him. And after the, solemn summing up in the third chapter we might well expect a terrible pronouncement of judgment upon every man. Instead of this we find that God offers not only a free pardon, but absolute justification for all, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Do you ask how you can obtain this wonderful blessing? It is not by works but by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ, the One Whom God has set forth a mercy-seat.
Does it not alter your thoughts of God to find that though He could righteously condemn you for your sins, yet He righteously saves you if you have faith in the One He has set forth? It is not only that Jesus came to save you, but the Father sent the Son. Does it not touch your heart to find that you have been made the subject of consideration by the Father and the Son? As a result you may be saved from the consequences of your sins, and much more, you may be brought into the inmost circle of the Father's love to share His thoughts about the Son, and to share the Son's thoughts about the Father.
All this can be yours, reader, if you but take God at His word. What a God He is to have delivered up His own Son for you! What a wonderful Savior Christ is to have come into the world to save you They are surely worthy of your consideration, apart from the fact that your own eternal welfare is concerned.
THERE is as much faith in waiting for God, as in waiting on God.