Today's encouragement comes from Hebrews 8:12, which says this:
" ' . . . For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.’ "Here, the writer of the book of Hebrews is quoting from the great New Cove-nant passage, from Jer., ch. 31. And what a citation it is! In Christ, God will "be merciful to [our] unrighteousness," and our "sins and lawless deeds [He] will remember no more." These are amazing and wonderful promises, but they only apply to those who trust in Jesus’ bloody sacrificial atonement alone for their salvation.
Let all faithful churched Christians marvel at the fact that God has forgiven the sins of His people. And let this liberty of heart, spirit, and conscience pro-pel us into active lives of love for such a wonderful God.
[Puritan quote of the day: "This is the greatest slavery in the world, for a man to have no acquaintance with that which is contrary to his corrupt disposition.” —Richard Sibbes, in, "Glorious Freedom"]
