Hi Brian! 

I am SO sorry that I forgot your blog! We were in Duluth Saturday for a concert, then I was at the Vikings game and then yesterday our grandson had a basketball game and it just dawned on me that today is Tuesday! This week we will be looking at Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest" devotional. He is another person who wrote years ago and sometimes the language is a littl obscure, but usually always worth thinking about! 

The Impartial Power Of God

For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. — Hebrews 10:14

We trample the blood of the Son of God under foot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only explanation of the forgiveness of God and of the unfathomable depth of His forgetting, is the Death of Jesus Christ. Our repentance is merely the outcome of our personal realization of the Atonement which He has worked out for us. “Christ Jesus…is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” When we realize that Christ is made all this to us, the boundless joy of God begins; wherever the joy of God is not present, the death sentence is at work.

It does not matter who or what we are, there is absolute reinstatement into God by the death of Jesus Christ and by no other way, not because Jesus Christ pleads, but because He died. It is not earned, but accepted. All the pleading which deliberately refuses to recognize the Cross is of no avail; it is battering at another door than the one which Jesus has opened. “I don’t want to come that way, it is too humiliating to be received as a sinner.” “There is none other Name…” The apparent heartlessness of God is the expression of His real heart, there is boundless entrance in His way. “We have forgiveness through His blood.” Identification with the death of Jesus Christ means identification with Him to the death of everything that never was in Him.

God is justified in saving bad men only as He makes them good. Our Lord does not pretend we are all right when we are all wrong. The Atonement is a propitiation whereby God through the death of Jesus makes an unholy man holy.

I LOVE that last sentence! There is NOTHING that we humans can do to EVER deserve God's forgiveness! Every part of it is based SOLELY and COMPLETELY on JESUS and what HE HAS DONE! And it is ENOUGH! SO thankful for that TRUTH! Here is Brooke Ligertwood with one of my very favorites songs about what HE has done! "Ancient Gates":

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!