Bless God—it is almost Sunday! In order to help get us ready for church, here is Thomas Watson, from his good book, "A Body of Divinity.” . . .
"See in this, as in a transparent glass [mirror], the love of Christ to the elect. He came to redeem them; and He died intentionally for them. Would it not be great love for a king's son to pay a large sum of money to redeem a captive? If he would be willing to be a prisoner in his stead, and to die for his ransom—would this not be a matter of wonder?"Jesus Christ has done all this, He has written His love in characters of blood. It was wonderful for Christ to speak a good word to His Father for us, but He knew that this was not enough to redeem us. Though a word being spoken made a world, yet it would not redeem a sinner. 'Without shedding of blood there is no remission,' (Heb 9:22)."
