Today's encouragement comes from Luke 7:50, where we find our Savior saying this:
"Then He [Christ] said to the woman, 'Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.' "
We are not only saved by grace through faith in Christ alone, (plus nothing)--but we also derive all our peace from Him as well. The woman Jesus had spoken these words to was a "sinner," (see v. 37).
The self-righteous pharisees had condemned her; but the blessed Messiah had encouraged her. Why? Because He (Christ) had forgiven her all her sins, and had set her on a new and free path of grace in Him.
[Puritan quote of the day: "We can never love God as He deserves. As God's punishing us is less than we deserve (Ezra 9:13), so our loving Him is less than He deserves." --Thomas Watson, in "All Things for Good"]
