Fri.-Sabbath, 12/15-17/17 Devotion

Hooray—it is almost Sunday! Here are good words from the esteemed Thom-as Watson, from his book, "The Ten Commandments":

"Faith in Christ is acceptable to God because it is a self-denying grace; it makes a man go out of himself, renounce all self-righteousness, and wholly rely on Christ for justification. It is very humble; it confesses its own indigence [poverty], and lives wholly upon Christ. As the bee sucks sweetness from the flower, so faith sucks all its strength and comfort from Christ.

"Faith is a grace acceptable to God, because by faith we present a righteous-ness to Him which best pleases Him; we bring the righteousness of Christ in-to court, which is called the righteousness of God, (2 Cor. 5:21). To bring Christ's righteousness, is to bring Benjamin with us. A believer may say, 'Lord, it is not the righteousness of Adam, or of the angels, but of Christ who is God-Man, that I bring before thee.' The Lord cannot but smell a sweet sa-vor in Christ's righteousness."