February 13 — Evening

Come, my soul, think you of this. Believing in Jesus, you art actually and effectually cleared from guilt; you art led out of your prison. You art no more in fetters as a bond-slave; you art delivered now from the bondage of the law; you art freed from sin, and can walk at large as a freeman, they Saviour's blood has procured your full discharge. You have a right now to approach your Father's throne. No flames of vengeance are there to scare you now; no fiery sword; justice cannot smite the innocent. Your disabilities are taken away: you were once unable to see your Father's face: you can see it now. You could not speak with Him: but now you have access with boldness. Once there was a fear of hell upon you; but you have no fear of it now, for how can there be punishment for the guiltless? He who believs is not condemned, and cannot be punished. And more than all, the privileges you mightst have enjoyed, if you hadst never sinned, are your now you art justified. All the blessings which you would have had if you hadst kept the law, and more, are your, because Christ has kept it for you. All the love and the acceptance which perfect obedience could have obtained of God, belong to you, because Christ was perfectly obedient on your behalf, and has imputed all His merits to your account, that you mightst be exceeding rich through Him, who for your sake became exceeding poor. Oh! How great the debt of love and gratitude you owest to your Saviour! "A debtor to mercy alone, Of covenant mercy I sing; Nor fear with Your righteousness on, My person and offerings to bring: The terrors of law and of God, With me can have nothing to do; My Saviour's obedience and blood Hide all my transgressions from view."