January 31
Psalms 119:39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
Oh, the sin that sticks to us like a burr. Oh, how past transgression likes to butt in to buffet and vex our soul and try the grace of God in us. We know so well that our guilty feeling is right because God’s judgments are good and we deserve to be chastised.
How long has it been, how deep are these ‘old files’ buried? Would we listen to one who would dare to bring up these records to the forefront of our soul? Do we have the courage to bring them up and expose them to the forgiving grace of Jesus?
Why should we pay any attention to the devil, the accuser of the Saints who tries to subject our hearts to his own unrepentant and therefore unforgiven state? Nay; but he has no place in us (Ephesians 4:27). We will face him lifting the blood of the Christ who died and resurrected for us and we will live (Numbers 21:8). We will look unto the brazen snake as unto the Son of God made sin for us (John 3:14). We will look him straight in the face and shout, “Jesus took my sin for me.” Again, “Jesus took my sin for me.” And again, “Jesus took my sin for me.” There now, the is weight lifted; the reproach taken away.
Our every stripe, our every lash, and our every burn from the fiery lake, He has taken upon Himself. When we come to Him in His appointed time, He will not sternly look at us and say, “What have you done”, but seeing the imprint of His blood on the side posts of our heart (Exodus 12:7) He will say, “Enter thou into the joy of Thy Lord” (Matthew 25:23).
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
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