Thursday, August 7

Clothed in Christ’s obedience

I must not only wash in Christ’s blood, but clothe me in Christ’s obedience. For every sin of omission in self, I may find a divinely perfect obedience ready for me in Christ. For every sin of commission in self, I may find not only a stripe or a wound in Christ, but also a perfect rendering of the opposite obedience in my place, so that the law is magnified, its curse more than carried, its demand more than answered.

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne, quoted by Andrew Bonar in
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
(Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1960), 176