" . . . Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."
These few words (above) provide the church everything we need. Our faith (which is personal, "Your") "has" (past tense) "saved [us]." Be-
cause of this, we may, in full confidence in Christ, "Go in peace." Be-
lievers do not need to debate whether or not their sins are forgiven; and whether or not God is at peace with them. Instead, they alone have the blessed privilege of knowing that God is fully satisfied with them--since Jesus bore their sins for them.
The fallen world in which we live provides us plenty of opposition and warfare; but our sin's conflict with God no longer exists. For this peace, which is greater than anything the world could ever know, let us always give our Lord thanks.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Oh, what a comfort and privilege is this to you! Oh, you believing soul. Though you were never so wicked and abominable before, yet I tell you from God this day, in whose pres-
ence you stand, that He will never remember your sin any more."
--Jeremiah Burroughs, in, "Gospel Remission"]
