“There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake, or we cannot ever be accepted at all.
This is not true of us only when we believe. It is just as true after we have believed. It will continue to be true as long as we live. Our need of Christ does not cease with our believing; nor does the nature of our relation to Him or to God through Him ever alter, no matter what our attainments in Christian graces or our achievements in behavior may be. It is always on His ‘blood and righteousness’ alone that we can rest.”
- B.B. Warfield, Works 7:113
(HT: Justin Taylor)
woha! thanks for that timely reminder! :)
[...] Finally, here is a wonderful reminder for the Christian. Which in turn brings to mind these lyrics from a song [...]
Saw this while reading this morning and thought it may be worthy of a future post: “And here in the cross is where every enemy of joy is overcome: divine wrath, as he becomes a curse for us; real guilt, as he becomes forgiveness for us; lawbreaking, as he becomes righteousness for us; estrangement from God, as he becomes reconciliation for us; slavery to the Satan, as he becomes redemption for us; bondage to sin, as he becomes liberation for us; pangs of conscience, as he becomes cleansing for us; death, as he becomes resurrection for us; hell, as he becomes eternal life for us.” – Piper, When I Don’t Desire God, p. 91.