Never More Glorious!!

God is as glorious in punishing sin as He is in pardoning sin. Never did God appear more glorious, than when He was pouring out His wrath on the Son of His love, for our sins. Justice and mercy, holiness and love there shone with united and transcendent splendor.  The same glory of God which shines in punishing sin in Hell appeared in His punishing it on the cross! 

Does not God deserve to be loved for the one, as well as for the other? Does He not deserve to be loved wherever and in whatever manner He causes His glorious justice to appear? That man never had true grace who does not love God for punishing sin, as well as for pardoning it. 

[Thomas Charles] 

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Isaiah 53:4-5 ... Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 

1 Peter 2:24 ... Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 

 Galatians 3:13 ... Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: ❤

Hideous Monster

Meditation on the sufferings and death of Jesus, produces a hatred towards sin.

It was sin which made it necessary for the Lord of glory to come down from Heaven and take on Him the form of a servant. Sin was the cause of His deep humiliation, abasement and sufferings. Viewing sin through the cross, the believer abhors it, and regards it with perfect hatred. He therefore diligently strives against it, and strenuously resists Satan, from whose iron chains he could never have been delivered, had it not been for the death of the Son of God.

Sin will never appear in its own deformity and horrid nature until we see it in its effects in the Son of God until we "behold the Lamb of God" bearing our sin on the cruel tree. Christ crucified, like a magnifying glass exhibits to view every feature of this hideous monster!

'Anything rather than sin!' is the language of the Christian's heart!

[Thomas Charles]

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Romans 12:9 …  Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.



Psalm 97:10 … Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.



Joshua 1:8 … his book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.❤

Never More Glorious

God is as glorious in punishing sin as He is in pardoning sin. Never did God appear more glorious, than when He was pouring out His wrath on the Son of His love, for our sins. Justice and mercy, holiness and love, there shone with united and transcendent splendor. The same glory of God which shines in punishing sin in Hell appeared in His punishing it on the cross!

Does not God deserve to be loved for the one, as well as for the other? Does He not deserve to be loved wherever and in whatever manner He causes His glorious justice to appear? That man never had true grace who does not love God for punishing sin, as well as for pardoning it.

[Thomas Charles]

Isaiah 53:4-5 …  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Galatians 3:13 … Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

1 Peter 2:24 …  Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.❤

Pride!

Many think themselves most humble when they are wholly devoid of this lovely and rare grace.  Often a great show of humility in speech and behavior, covers the rankest and most diabolical pride in the heart! They are filled, it may be, with a high opinion of their self-abasement. Their humility is without one spark of gratitude to God, or any disposition to give Him glory.

The deceitfulness of the heart, and the subtlety of Satan, in no one thing appears so great, as in the workings of pride. Nor have we in anything more cause for continual watchfulness, than pride. Nothing is so subtle, so secret, so insinuating as pride! It often surprises us at an unexpected hour and is in actual possession of us, before we are aware of its approach.

Were we under the continual influence of a humble spirit, our religious attainments would not be so apt to glitter in our own eyes. We would be daily ashamed of, and sorely lament our great blindness and ignorance of God, our astonishing ingratitude, and the coldness of our love to Him!

The spirit of pride is eminently the work of the devil within our souls. Pride enters into the very essence of every other corruption, and is the life and soul of every other sin! Until this wretched pride is in a measure brought down and mortified--no grace will grow and thrive in the heart.

Until we are brought to this state of true humility, taking shame to ourselves, and giving glory to God in and for everything we cannot possibly enjoy communion with God, and growth in grace cannot possibly take place.

Real humility takes nothing to itself, but sin and shame. Real humility gives all the glory to God, who is the Giver of every good and perfect gift.

There is not one single blessing from god that can be received, but by a humble spirit.  Nor can we be partakers of the consolations of Christ, but in proportion as this humble spirit prevails.

[Thomas Charles]

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Proverbs 16:18 … Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.


Proverbs 29:23 … A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.


Proverbs 11:2 … When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.❤