My soul! your God summons you to His audience chamber!
Infinite purity seeks to reason with immense vileness! Deity stoops
to speak to dust! Do not dread the meeting. It is the most
gracious as well as most wondrous of all conferences. Jehovah
Himself breaks silence! He utters the best tidings a lost soul or a lost world
can hear, "God is in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing
unto men their trespasses." What! Scarlet sins, and crimson sins! and these all
to be forgiven and forgotten! The just God "justifying" the unjust! The
mightiest of all beings, the kindest of all!
Oh! what is there in you to merit such love as this? You
might have known your God only as the "consuming fire," and had nothing before
you except "a fearful looking for of vengeance!" This gracious conference bids
you to dispel your fears! It tells you that it is no longer a "fearful thing,"
but a blessed thing to fall into His hands! Have you consented to His overtures?
Until you are at peace with Him, happiness must be a stranger to
your bosom.
Though you have all else beside, if bereft of God you must be
bereft indeed! Lord! I come! As your pardoning grace is freely offered,
so shall I freely accept it. May it be mine, even now, to listen to the
gladdening accents, Son! Daughter! be of good cheer! Your sins, which are many, are all forgiven!
[John MacDuff]
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Isaiah 1:18 ... Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Micah 7:19 ... He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
1 John 2:12 ... I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. ❤
