IT is just seventeen years today since I got peace with God, and oh, what a peace it has been! A peace not made by me; for I, a poor lost sinner, could never have made peace with a holy God, against whom I had sinned, and whose laws I had violated. It needed a third Person, and that blessed Person who has come in between me and that holy, holy, holy God was His own eternal Son. He became man, to make peace with God for me by the blood of His cross. And this peace is now preached, or declared, through the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, as having been made by Jesus Christ, and is offered to all free; “for all have sinned.”
Will you have it, anxious one? It is a divine work, and, as a result, perfect. The Peacemaker is in glory, and wants you to enjoy the result of His own work, and be happy now and forever. Our peace and our victory is through the blood of the Lamb; yea, He is our peace. Praise and glory be to Him.
“I hear the words of love,
God looks upon the blood;
Accepts the mighty sacrifice,
And I have peace with God.
“‘Tis everlasting peace,
Sure as Jehovah’s name;
‘Tis stable as His steadfast throne,
For evermore the same.”
J. R. W.