Friday, January 27

As Christ would stand

We deserved eternal death; we deserved exclusion from the household of God; but the Lord Jesus took upon himself all the guilt of our sins and died instead of us on the cross.

Henceforth the law’s demands have been satisfied for us by Christ, its terror for us is gone, and clothed no longer in our righteousness but in the righteousness of Christ we stand without fear, as Christ would stand without fear, before the judgment seat of God.

— J. Gresham Machen
What Is Faith?
(Edinburgh, UK: Banner of Truth, 1991), 164-65