AN elderly Christian was slowly recovering from a dangerous illness. A short time before she had believed herself to be on the borders of eternity, but had manifested neither fear nor anxiety, for she rested unhesitatingly on God’s testimony concerning His Son. She knew that He who knew no sin had been made sin for her, and that she stood “complete in Him.”
This child of God was talking to her attendant of her readiness to depart “to be with Christ,” but the latter did not know what it was to be saved through the merits of the precious blood of Christ, so she inquired “But what about your sins?”
“They are all gone,” replied the lady; “they are all washed away in the precious blood of Christ.”
Blessed answer, showing that her hear took, in all their depth of meaning, the words of the psalmist, “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.”
“What though th’ accuser roar
Of ills that I have clone!
I know them well, and thousands more;
Jehovah findeth none.”
And what about your sins, dear reader? Are they put away? Can you, too, say, “They are washed away in the blood of Christ”?
One thing is quite certain, they must be got rid of before you can go to heaven for God is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity.
“I do believe that Jesus died for sinners, but I am not sure that my sins are forgiven,” is the language of many. Is it yours, dear reader? Well, you may know this very day that your sins are forgiven and your iniquities covered, if you believe what God tells you about the finished work of His dear Son. You will never, never get peace by looking within; it is by looking away from yourself at that risen, glorified Man at God’s right hand that you get peace. “He suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, to bring us to God.” He bore the punishment that we sinners deserve, and, having done so, God raised Him from the dead. He is now in glory, with the marks in His side, His hands and His feet forever showing that He has paid the sinner’s debt. Behold Him, for “He is our peace.” The Holy Ghost says “Through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins,” and “by Him all that believe are justified from all things.” And again, what a word is this for such as are bound down with a sense of their sins: “Their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more.” Can God say more?
Take God’s word as it stands, and you shall say of your sins, “they are all gone.”
“The trembling sinner feareth
That God can ne’er forget;
But one full payment cleareth
His memory of all debt.”
M. W.