(ISAIAH 1:18). ISA 1:18
GOOD character is nothing with God. There is not a man that would have all he has done, thought, and said, written on the wall of his house. But it is all out before God.
Leave a man alone for two or three hours, and he must think of something, but he will never think of Christ. When you come to know the real condition of man's heart, Christ has no place in it. It is not Christ he loves at all. Christ came, and passed through this world to carry God's love to every one. He came to sinners in their sins, because they needed Him.
Christ comes and shows us what we are.
The law shows us what we ought to be. If the light comes in, the person is convicted, but Christ is there in perfect grace. I was under death, sin, the curse, and wrath. He came under death, sin, the curse, and wrath.
When I come before the judgment-seat of Christ, whom shall I see there? The Man that put away my sins. God would have us happy, happy in a holy walk, happy -with Himself; and in order that I may be happy, He has put away all my sins, and made me white as snow. Then I can walk with God happily.
The glory is in the Person who bore my sins. I like to look at the glory now; every ray of it is the proof that my sins are gone (1 John 3:5). 1JO 3:5I look at it, think of it, delight in it, and then I am changed into the same image from glory to glory (2 Cor 3:18). 2CO 3:18My heart has confidence in Him: that is faith, and I follow Him, and see where He is, and get practically like Him.
God has proved His righteousness by taking Christ to His right hand. My sins are not only put away, but I am in Christ, made the righteousness of God in Him. I have sins, but God says: “I have righteousness for you." Don't tell me I can't know it. Why, Christ says I shall “At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you” (John 14:20). JOH 14:20 I believe what Christ says.
Christ is coming, and I believe the moment is hastening on. Supposing He came tonight. Well, I say, “Thank God, His first coming redeemed me. He is coming again to take me to be with Him in the same glory as Himself.”
What we want to learn is the wonderfulness of this love. “We have known and believed the love that God hath to us" (1 John 4:16). 1JO 4:16
We shall see face to face Him whose visage was more marred than any man's. He washed me from my sins the first time He came, and He is only waiting to come and take me to Himself. J. N. D.