June 10
How can anyone who abides in a frail tabernacle of flesh withstand the storms that assail? How can anyone who sails a frail bark upon the tumultuous Sea of Life be sure that his craft will not be overturned in the waves that regularly wash over the ship of his life?
How can we, who are undone by our own sinful nature expect that the God who dwells in eternity will have any reason to reach down from Heaven and give us the peace we need, the calm assurance we long to have, that He is with us and that His intention is to do us good?
When we are confronted by our proclivity to falter as we trod the path of righteousness that the Lord would have us to walk by His side, we have the same assurance that Abraham had. In Romans 4:3 we are told, “Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
Like Abraham, who claimed his wife was his sister to spare himself harm when Pharaoh desired to take her as his own wife (Genesis 12:11-20), we, too have let God down. But as with Abraham, it is not our righteousness that impressed the Lord in the first place! It is our trust in the shed blood of Jesus that enables the Holy One to see us as righteous.
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