All that we see within is foul, ugly, and grim!
(Frank Hall)
Colossians 2:10
Oh desponding Christian, is not your
grief caused by looking within yourself?
Is not that miserable feeling of failure
and disappointment, caused by your
strange fixation upon your hollow heart
of iniquity? You look within, hoping to
find something good, something pure,
something precious, something clean--
but what do you see? Nothing but sin!
To stare into one's self--
is to stare into a bottomless pit
of despair and hopelessness!
of all things, and desperately wicked!"
Jeremiah 17:9
Will we ever learn this?
There is nothing within us to give
us hope, rest, or peace. Have we ever
found anything within us that gave us
joy? Of course not!
Then why do we continue to stare
into the darkness? All that we see
within is foul, ugly, and grim!
One glance within ought to sicken us.
We would sooner find diamonds in a
dunghill or roses growing in a sewer--
than find goodness dwelling within!
In ourselves we are sinful,
guilty, and vile!
But bless GOD forever!
Our standing before GOD is not
in ourselves; it's in CHRIST!
HE is . . .
our Salvation,
our Righteousness,
our Hope,
our Holiness, and
our Acceptance with GOD!
Change the direction of your gaze--
and look up!
Stop staring into the empty
void of your heart--
and fix your eyes upon JESUS
your LORD, in whom all fullness
dwells. Our hope is not within,
but without, seated at the right
hand of the FARHER!
Lift up your head that is bowed
down with guilt and shame!
Behold CHRIST your SAVIOR!
Behold your glorious Redeemer!
Bid sorrow goodbye and fear depart!
Rejoice, for
Believers are perfect in CHRIST.
To be complete in CHRIST is to be perfect
in CHRIST. Perfect is not something
that we will be, or strive to be--
but something that we are right
now, by virtue of our eternal
union with GOD'S darling SON.
Brothers and sisters in CHRIST,
we are, by the free grace of GOD,
complete in CHRIST our SAVIOR!
We lack nothing!
All that HE is--
we are in HIM!
All that HE has--
we have in HIM!
All that HE has done--
we've done in HIM!
We possess the infinite fullness of
eternal life and everlasting salvation
in JESUS CHRIST our LORD!
We are completely righteous in HIM!
We are completely holy in HIM!
We are completely forgiven in HIM!
We are completely accepted in HIM!
We are completely, everlastingly,
perfectly sinless in HIM!
Hebrews 12:2
"For every look at SELF--
take ten looks at CHRIST!"
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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