Daily Devotion

February 3, 2006

(Psa 119:39 KJV)  Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.

Oh, the sin that tries to stick to you like a burr.  Oh, how the transgression of the past likes to but in at any time to buffet and vex our soul, to try the grace of God in us.  You know that God’s judgments are good and that this guilty feeling is right, you do deserve to be chastised for your sin.

How long has it been, and how far deep are these “old files” buried?  Would you really listen to him who dares to bring up these things to your soul to confront the forgiving grace that God has already given you through His Son?  Would you pay any attention to the devil, the accuser of the Saints who tries to apply to your heart his own unrepentant and therefore unforgiven state?  Nay; do not give him any place (Eph 4:27), but face him lifting the blood of Christ  who died and resurrected for you and live (Num 21:8).  Look unto the brazen snake as unto the Son of God made sin for us (John 3:14).  Look him straight in the face and say, “JESUS TOOK MY SIN FOR ME!” Say it again, “JESUS TOOK MY SIN FOR ME!” and again, “JESUS TOOK MY SIN FOR ME!” shout it now, “JESUS TOOK MY SIN FOR ME!”  There now, can you feel the weight lifted?  Can you feel your reproach taken away from you?

Let not your heart be heavy.  Your every stripe, your every lash, and your every burn from the fiery lake, He has taken upon Himself so that when you come to Him in His appointed time, He will not sternly look at you and say, “What have you done”, but seeing the imprint of His blood on the side posts of your heart (Ex 12:7) He will say, “Enter thou into the joy of Thy Lord” (Mat 25:23).

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.
(2Co 5:21 KJV)