Author: Marie Miles
Dear reader, how do you stand before God just now? My heart is burdened for you. Do you not know that the Bible says “. . . It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment”? (Heb. 9:27). The first part of this verse is being fulfilled before our eyes day after day. And surely the last part is sure. Do you know that you shall stand before the judgment bar of God to give an account of how you have lived in this world? No one shall be spared. “Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess.” (Phil. 2:10-11). If you do not bow here nor confess here, you will do it some time-but will it be too late? Dear reader, there is a way out of your sins. There is a way that your sins may be blotted out and you can in the judgment stand before God clean and spotless.
Jesus said, “I am the way.” He is the way out for us. He was willing to come down from that beautiful home in heaven and live here in this sinful world, taking on human flesh and then dying on the cross that we may be delivered from our sins. When He arose from the grave and ascended up on high, the plan of salvation was made complete for us. He is our mediator between us and God. As we come to God confessing our sins and asking God for Christ’s sake to forgive us of our sins, He will do that. But there is a way that we must come to God. We must come with godly sorrow, and with a “broken and contrite heart.” We must be sorry that we have transgressed the commands of a loving and just God, asking His forgiveness, and then believe that He does forgive us. “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness: and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Rom. 10:9, 13).
Can you not see the great loving heart of our great God as He sent Jesus, His only Son, here? How He loved us! See the love of Jesus! He told the great multitude who came to take Him with swords and staves that He could have called, and more than twelve legions of angels would have come to His rescue; but then how could the plan of salvation be complete? (Matt. 26:53-54). How could we have been saved if we did not have Someone to die for us? How we should thank the Lord and fall in humble contrition before Him for dying in our stead.
