Faithful To Condemn

"But after thy hardness and impenitent heard treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God." (Romans 2:5)

Let us look at God's faithfulness in its application. As it applies to sinners, if you are lost and you know it, God has declared that He will banish from His presence all who love sin and reject His Son. God has promised that; He had declared that; He was warned and threatened, and it will be so. Let no one trust a desperate hope, for it is based on the belief that God threatens but doesn't fulfill. No, God waits that He may be gracious! And He will sometimes postpone in order to give us another thirty days, another sixty days, to make up our minds. But just as sure as the mills of God grind, the souls of men fall into them and are ground exceedingly small. God moves slowly and is very patient, but God has promised that He will banish from His presence all who love sin, who reject His Son and refuse to believe.

That is the message for the sinner who won't come, who loves his sin.

Lord, help me do my part to warn unrepentant sinners that "it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" and that our sentence has been postponed only because we have a merciful God (Hebrews 10:31). Amen

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Faithful To Forgive

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9)

Frances Havergal said that she came to a spot where she believed that the Lord meant exactly what He said. When He said, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9), she found out that the Lord meant exactly what He said.

Why don't you start reading your Bible with the thought that God meant exactly what He said there?

When you read your Bible, instead of wondering about it, say to yourself, "God wrote this and God is faithful; God cannot lie." For example, read First John 1:7:

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

That's a heartwarming and wonderful truth, if you are a Christian who may have sinned.

Thank You, Lord, that what You have spoken in Your Word, You truly meant - especially about Your much-needed forgiveness of our sin! Amen

~A. W. Tozer~