Wednesday, May 6

Even better than forgiven

The voice that spells forgiveness will say: ‘You may go: you have been let off the penalty which your sin deserves.’

But the verdict which means acceptance [justification] will say: ‘You may come; you who are welcome to all my love and my presence.’

— Sir Marcus Loane, quoted by John Stott in
The Message of Romans
(Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1994), 110