Connecting With Jesus

💖 HAPPY PREPARATION DAY 💞

The Power of Forgiveness

Thus God takes away the sinful life by putting His own righteous life in its place.

And this is the power of the forgiveness of sin. It is “the power of an endless life.” 💝

This is the beginning of the Christian life. It is receiving the life of God by faith. How is it continued?-Just as it is begun.

💝“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him.” Colossians 2:6.

For “the just shall live by faith.” The secret of living the Christian life is simply that of holding fast the life which, received at the beginning, forgives the sin.

God forgives sin by taking it away. He justifies the ungodly by making him godly. He reconciles the rebel sinner to himself by taking away his rebellion, and making him a loyal and law-abiding subject.

It is sometimes said, “But it is difficult to understand how we can have the life of God as an actual fact; it can’t be real, for it is by faith that we have it.” So it was by faith that the poor palsied man received new life and strength; but was his strength any the less real? Was it not an actual fact that he received strength? “Cannot understand it”? Of course not, for it is a manifestation of “the love of God that passeth knowledge.” But we may believe it, and realize the fact, and then we shall have an eternal life in which to study the wonder of it. Read again and again the story of the healing of the palsied man, and meditate upon it until it is a living reality to you, and then remember that “these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name.”