Praise God—it is almost Sunday! In order to help get us ready for this special Day, here is the gifted Thomas Watson, from his book entitled, "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 [spiritual bankruptcy], and lives wholly upon Christ. As the bee derives sweetness from the flower, so faith derives all its strength and comfort from Christ."Faith is a grace that is acceptable to God, because by faith we present a righteousness to Him which best pleases God: we bring the righteousness of Christ into the divine courtroom, which is called 'the righteousness of God,' (2 Cor 5:21). To bring Christ's righteousness, is to bring Benjamin [of the OT] with us. A believer may say, 'Lord, it is not the righteousness of Adam, or of the angels, but of Christ who is The God-Man, that I bring before You.' The Lord cannot but smell a sweet savor in Christ's righteousness."
