Daily Devotionals

Golden Treasury

Devotional: October 18th

We are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ: whom God has set forth to he a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past. Romans 3:24-25,

How sweet are the words, " By grace, without merits, ye are saved! " O, an inexhaustible fountain of all comfort and divine strength! O, how little is the generality of vain and worldly people, who still feed upon husks, acquainted with these words! How little are they relished by our self-righteous, moral Christians! But O how deliciously does a poor, hungering sinner, fare upon them!

There is hardly any thing less known and understood as to the power and experience, than the mystery of Christ’s suffering and dying for us, and justification by faith in him, though it is the only paradise and element of believers, and the greatest jewel restored by the reformation. Such talking and representations as strike the imagination are not sufficient; but we must also feel the mortal wounds of sin, by which the flesh is mortified, and be actually healed by the stripes of Christ.

God, the great God that rules the skies.
The gracious and the just.
Makes his own Son a sacrifice,
And here lies all our trust.

Here rest my faith, and never remove,
Here let repentance rise,
While I behold his bleeding love,
His dying agonies.

With shame and sorrow here I own,
How great my guilt has been;
This is my way to approach the throne.
And God forgives my sin.