Ray Ortlund, quoting C.H. Spurgeon:
“If today you feel that sin is hateful to you, believe in Him who has said, ‘It is finished.’ Let me link your hand in mine. Let us come together, both of us, and say, ‘Here are two poor naked souls, good Lord; we cannot clothe ourselves,’ and He will give us a robe, for ‘it is finished.’ . . . ‘But must we not add tears to it?’ ‘No,’ says He, ‘no, it is finished, there is enough.’
Child of God, will you have Christ’s finished righteousness this morning, and will you rejoice in it more than you ever have before?”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, 1950), II:675. Style updated.
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That really is powerful and a good quick reminder of what we know to be true- but can be hard to practice! We are now clothed in the righteousness of God! What an awesome thought we need to remember. We don’t have to laboriously mourn our sins or anything, but with a grateful heart receive His forgiveness turning away from that sin and knowing that it doesn’t have a hold on us with the power of God!!