When the winds are out, and the storms are loosed, and temptation howls through the soul, we always fly to the Word of God and not to our own experience: we get away from what we feel to what the Lord has said. One ounce, of “it is written,” gives more confidence than a ton of what we have felt. We are apt in troublous times to judge that our happy feeling was a delusion, and our confidence a mistake. “True, I did think that I stood and looked within the pearly gates, and was full of heavenly joy; but, alas, it may have been all a dream.”
This is, however, no dream, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners – there is no mistake about that fact, That God has set forth his Son to be a propitiation for sin there is no imagination about that.
There it stands in black and white in the Scriptures of truth, and to that witness we fly again. Whether I am saint or sinner, whether I am an heir of heaven or an heir of wrath, there standeth the word, “He that believeth in him is not condemned.” I do believe in him, and I am not condemned, nor shall all the devils in hell make me think I am, since God has said I am not.
On that rock my faith shall stand unshaken, come what may.
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
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John 3:18 ... He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
1 John 4:10 ... Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
John 20:31 ... But 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.❤
John 20:31 ... But 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.❤
