I'm reading through Colossians this month, and therefore decided on this from Spurgeon. Now I know I said I'd be using "Spurgeon Gold" as my source for the Friday theme, but I had to switch it up this week. I have "Morning by Morning," which is a devotional written by Spurgeon. I actually just picked it up to read yesterday, and found there to be some rich observations that could help provoke us to deeper study. That's always a good thing. Now today's Friday with Spurgeon is meant as an encouragement. An encouragement to those who are in Christ. Because of the righteousness of our Savior, we are accounted as righteous. This alien righteousness allows us to stand before a perfect God, Holy and majestic, and offer prayers that are actually heard. As often as we are reminded (daily) of our imperfection and wretchedness, I thought it a good time to remind the believer of the Gospel. The Gospel that both saves AND sustains us!! Take a moment today to reflect on the Gospel, and the benefits of Justification to the believer. It is so AWESOME and MERCIFUL and GRACIOUS of a God who owes man nothing to draw us, clean us from within, and declare us not guilty on the merits of His perfect Son. Rejoice with me today for the greatness of Justification in Christ!! May we be encouraged and motivated to share this rich Gospel with the lost. Soli Deo Gloria!!!
Do you not feel in your own soul that perfection is not in you? Does not every day teach you that? Every tear which trickles from your eye, weeps "imperfection"; every harsh word which proceeds from your lip, mutters "imperfection." You have too frequently had a view of your own heart to dream for a moment of any perfection in yourself. But amidst this sad consciousness of imperfection, here is comfort for you--you are "perfect in Christ Jesus."In God's sight, you are "complete in Him;" even now you are "accepted in the Beloved." But there is a second perfection, yet to be realized, which is sure to all the seed. Is it not delightful to look forward to the time when every stain of sin shall be removed from the believer, and he shall be presented faultless before the throne, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing? The Church of Christ then will be so pure, that not even the eye of Omniscience will see a spot or blemish in her; so holy and so glorious, that Hart did not go beyond the truth when he said--
"With my Saviour's garments on, Holy as the Holy One." Then shall we know, and taste, and feel the happiness of this vast but short sentence, "Complete in Christ." Not till then shall we fully comprehend the heights and depths of the salvation of Jesus. Doth not thy heart leap for joy at the thought of it? Black as thou art, thou shalt be white one day; filthy as thou art, thou shalt be clean. Oh, it is a marvellous salvation this! Christ takes a worm and transforms it into an angel; Christ takes a black and deformed thing and makes it clean and matchless in His glory, peerless in His beauty, and fit to be the companion of seraphs. O my soul, stand and admire this blessed truth of perfection in Christ.
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