Two Places

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There are two places where your sins may be hidden: in your own bosom or under the blood of Christ!
Job declared that he had not covered his transgressions after the manner of men by hiding his iniquity in his bosom. (Job 31:3333If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: (Job 31:33).) Your iniquity may be hidden from the sight of men in your own bosom, while you present a fair or even deceptive appearance. But the day speeds on in which God will judge not only your works and words, but the secrets of your heart. If you now hide your iniquity there, depend upon it, it will all be found there to your everlasting confusion. Better, better far that you come to God by Jesus Christ, owning all the pollution, the folly and wickedness which defile your heart, saying to that Savior of sinners—
"Just as I am—and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot;
To Thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come.”
Washed in that precious blood, you will be in God's sight "whiter than snow." No longer then a mere professor, making a fair show in the flesh while the soul's deep stains of sin are unremoved, you will be justified by grace, appareled in divine righteousness, and made complete in Christ. Then if Infinite Holiness searches you, it can only find that Infinite Love has removed in righteousness every stain of sin.
"Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." Psa. 139:23, 2423Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 139:23‑24).
"GOD COMMENDETH HIS LOVE
TOWARD US, IN THAT, WHILE WE
WERE YET SINNERS, CHRIST DIED