Thurs., 4/11/19 Devotion (Ps. 18:27)

Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 18:27, where we read these words of David, inspired by the Holy Spirit:

"For You will save the humble people, but will bring down haughty looks."

We do not need a lot, in order to be saved. We need a perfect sinless God-Man as a Redeemer; and we need to have *nothing* to offer, from ourselves, that would be put forward as any type of atonement (for our sins). This is the essence of the humble person: to have nothing to offer to God. Those are the people God forgives, and justifies—through their sovereignly-given faith in Christ.

Let us beware of our religious nature. It will seek to rob us of Jesus; and try to replace Him with something else. All we need is Christ, received with empty hands of faith.

[Puritan quote of the day: "All our disquiets issue immediately from unbelief. It is this that raises the storm of discontent in the heart. Oh, set faith to work!” —Thomas Watson, in, "The Art of Divine Contentment"]