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Father! Thy sovereign love has
sought
Captives to sin, gone far from Thee; The work that Thine Own Son hath wrought, Has brought us back—in peace and free! A single sin is
more horrible to God than a thousand sins—nay, than all the sins in the
world—are to us. It is the action
of an independent will which is the principle of sin. God can let
nothing pass; He can forgive all and cleanse from all, but let nothing
pass. Christ is love;
the greater sinner I am, the more need I have of Him. If all the sins
that ever were committed in the world were congregated in your persons
and were your own act, this need not prevent your believing in Christ
and coming unto God through Him. Look at the state
man is really in as regards the trust he puts in man rather than God.
If his neighbour should ask him to do anything, though his conscience
may tell him God hates what his neighbour wants him to do, still,
rather than disoblige his companion, he will sin against God. Sinning and
religiousness go on together. … Where the power of godliness is not,
nearness to godly things is only the more dangerous. If our hearts …
feel not sin, Christ felt it when He drank the cup and bore sin for us.
If the heart does not feel the gravity of sin, not to the same point as
Jesus knew it, but at least in some degree—if, feeble as it may be, the
feeling of sin is a stranger to us—we have not at all entered into the
mind of Jesus. Adam sinned and
left God, because he thought more of what Satan offered him; he thought
the devil a better friend to him than God: but he has since found out
to his cost that the devil was a liar; that he never had the power of
giving him what he promised, and that by catching at the devil’s bait;
he has received his hook, and that “the wages of sin is death.” On the cross hung
the one spotless, blessed Man, yet forsaken of God. What a fact before
the world! No wonder the sun was darkened—the central and splendid
witness to God’s glory in nature, when the Faithful and True Witness
cried to His God and was not heard. Forsaken of God! What does this
mean? What part have I in the cross? One single part—my sins. … It
baffles thought, that most solemn lonely hour which stands aloof from
all before or after. Christ … died
rather than allow sin to subsist before God. Directly grace
acts in the heart, it gives the consciousness of sin; but, at the same
time, the love of Christ reaches the conscience, deepening the
consciousness of sin; but if this is deep, it is because the
consciousness of the love of Christ is also deep. Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the Writings, Hymns,
Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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