June 13

We know ourselves. We know our weaknesses and our foibles. We are aware of our proclivity to sin. We know if we were to face an earthly judge who possessed all the evidence against us, our lot would be that we would be condemned. But our Heavenly Father is not an earthly judge.

Among the most precious words of assurance and comfort in the scriptures are those found in Romans 8:1. Though we are deserving of conviction of our crimes (sins) against God and the punishment of death for those sins, we have received a stay of execution because of the One who took our place, who bore our punishment.

In this comforting passage it says, “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live not after the dictates of the flesh but after the Spirit.” The assurance we are given here is that when we have laid our sins at the foot of the Cross, the blood of Jesus flows down and covers them!

Every vile aspect of our lives is put under the blood of Jesus and we who are laden with the sin and stench of the most evil and perverse of our thoughts and deeds are washed clean! The blood of Jesus that found us rotting with sin washes us purer than snow—the blood cleanses us from sin and makes us fit to commune with God.