“When Satan lines up the
believer's sins against him and confronts him with their severity, faith runs
under the shelter of this Rock.
Christ is the One
"whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his
blood" (Romans 3:25). He is the One the Father has
sealed and singled out from all others and set forth as the Person chosen to
make atonement for sinners, as the lamb was taken out of the flock and set
apart for the Passover.
Therefore when
Satan lines up the believer's sins against him and confronts him with their
severity, faith runs under the shelter of this Rock. "Surely," says
faith, "my Savior is infinitely greater than my greatest sins. I would be
rejecting the wisdom of God's choice to doubt." God knew what a heavy
burden He had to lay upon Christ's shoulders but He was fully persuaded of His
Son's strength to carry it. A weak faith may save but a weak Savior cannot.
Faith has Christ to plead for it but Christ had none to plead for Him. Faith
leans on Christ's arm, but Christ stood alone. If the burden of our sins had
prevailed against Him, no one in heaven or on earth could have helped Him
stand.
God's mercy
declares his righteousness. Everyone believes God is merciful to forgive; but
it is harder to believe how He can be righteous in forgiving sinners. "To
declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the
justifier of him which believeth in Jesus" (Romans
3:26). God was saying, "I know why it seems so incredible that
I should pardon all your iniquities. You think because I am a righteous God
that I would rather damn a thousand worlds of sinners than bring My name under
the least suspicion of unrighteousness. I would indeed damn them over and over
again, rather than stain the honor of My justice--which is Myself. But I
command you and the greatest sinners on earth to believe it: I can be just and
yet the justifier of those sinners who believe in Jesus."
Quoted material from, ”The Christian in Complete Armour Daily Readings
in Spiritual Warfare” by Gurnall and James S Bell. http://www.moodypublishers.com/pub_productDetail.aspx?id=41823&pid=53617
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