Oh desponding Christian, is not your grief caused by looking within yourself? Is
not that miserable feeling of failure and disappointment, caused by your strange
fixation upon your hollow heart of iniquity? You look within, hoping to find
something good, something pure, something precious, something clean but what do
you see? Nothing but sin! To stare into one's self is to stare into a bottomless
pit of despair and hopelessness! "The human heart is the most deceitful of all
things, and desperately wicked!" (Jeremiah 17:9)
Will we ever learn this? There
is nothing within us to give us hope, rest, or peace. Have we ever found
anything within us that gave us joy? Of course not! Then why do we continue to
stare into the darkness? All that we see within is foul, ugly and grim! One
glance within ought to sicken us. We would sooner find diamonds in a dunghill or
roses growing in a sewer than find goodness dwelling within!
In ourselves we are
sinful, guilty and vile! But bless God forever! Our standing before God is not
in ourselves; it is in Christ! He is our salvation, our Righteousness, our Hope,
our Holiness, and our Acceptance with God! Change the direction of your gaze and
look up! Stop staring into the empty void of your heart and fix your eyes upon
Jesus your Lord, in whom all fullness dwells. Our hope is not within, but
without, seated at the right hand of the Father! Lift up your head that is bowed
down with guilt and shame! Behold Christ your Savior! Behold your glorious
Redeemer! Bid sorrow goodbye and fear depart! Rejoice, for "You are complete in
Him!" (Colossians 2:10)
Believers are perfect in Christ. To be complete in
Christ, is to be perfect in Christ. Perfect is not something that we will be, or
strive to be but something that we are right now, by virtue of our eternal union
with God's darling Son. Brothers and sisters in Christ, we are, by the free
grace of God, complete in Christ our Savior! We lack nothing! All that He is we
are in Him! All that He has we have in Him! All that He has done we've done in
Him! We possess the infinite fullness of eternal life and everlasting salvation
in Jesus Christ our Lord! We are completely righteous in Him! We are completely
holy in Him! We are completely forgiven in Him! We are completely accepted in
Him! We are completely, everlastingly, perfectly sinless in Him!
[Frank Hall]
Hebrews 12:2 ... Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who
for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and
is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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