Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD! Psalm 119:1 Holiness is happiness. All other pursuits of happiness will fail you and prove to be very cheap substitutes for the real thing. We are prone to think holiness is more of a chore than a delight, but this…
Blotted Out our Transgressions
“I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.” Isaiah 44:22 How many clouds have hung in the sky only to be “blotted out” within a few hours. This is the picture God gives to His people of how their sins are…
Alien Righteousness
Therefore this alien righteousness, instilled in us without our works by grace alone—while the Father, to be sure, inwardly draws us to Christ—is set opposite original sin, likewise alien, which we acquire without our works by birth alone. Christ daily drives out the old Adam more and more in accordance with the extent to which…
Man at his Best State is Vanity
“Truly, every man at his best state is altogether vanity!” Psalm 39:5 By Adam’s fall, man has become a pile of dust, a puff of wind, a dream, a shadow, a puff of smoke, a worm, a debased soul, a curious nothing. Yes, man having fallen from his primitive glory, has become altogether vanity, says the psalmist in…
Comfort for the Downcast
2 Corinthians 7:6 “But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us…” Only the Lord Jesus Christ can comfort us with a perfect comfort. His consolation is the only lasting consolation. A husband, a wife, a child, a parent, a dearest friend can not even compare to Spirit of Christ within the believer comforting the believer…