Today's encouragement comes from Job 9:1 & 2, which says this:
"Then Job answered and said: 'Truly I know it is so, but how can a man be righteous before God?' "Job's question here (above) is a hugely-important one. After all, just *how* can a sinful human being, conceived in Adam’s rebellion, and always (in this life) being affected by that fallen nature, actually "be righteous before God"? This is an apparently insurmountable problem, since God Himself is totally righteous and holy, and nothing short of *absolute* sinless perfection will, can, or should satisfy Him.
God alone resolved this conundrum, by sending His own only-begotten and beloved Son, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, who made a pristine vi-carious atonement for elect sinners, who would then be sovereignly drawn by the Spirit, through miraculous and saving grace. We realize this liberating righteousness by faith in the Son of God, conveyed to us via the gospel of God’s love and mercy.
[Puritan quote of the day: "A Christian may come to lead a comfortable life, even a heaven upon earth, be the times what they will: by Christian content-ment.” —Thomas Watson, in, "The Art of Divine Contentment"]
[Puritan quote of the day: "A Christian may come to lead a comfortable life, even a heaven upon earth, be the times what they will: by Christian content-ment.” —Thomas Watson, in, "The Art of Divine Contentment"]
