Solus Christus

In recent weeks I find that I have been driven afresh to the gospel, to look outside of myself ---- and instead more intentionally admiring, exploring, expositing, and extolling Jesus Christ and His imputed righteousness, by which alone I am acceptable before the God of blazing holiness. It is necessary for me to preach this gospel to myself afresh every day, because, in the words of my friend John Newton, "I am a great sinner." But, as he is quick to add ------ "Jesus is a great Savior."

So, for me and for you, here is more gospel fuel to reflect on today and this upcoming week. Compared to the lengthy Belgic Confession statement of last weekend I would say it is less gallonage, but speaks with the same high octane value:

"But one day as I was passing into the field, with some dashes on my conscience, fearing that all was not right, suddenly this sentence fell upon my soul, 'Your righteousness is in heaven.' I thought I saw with the eyes of my soul Jesus Christ at God's right hand. There was my righteousness. Wherever I was, or whatever I was doing, God could not say of me that I lacked His righteousness, for that was ever before Him. Moreover, I saw that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse, for My righteousness was Jesus Christ Himself, 'the same yesterday, today and forever' (Hebrews 13:8)." -- John Bunyan

O the wonder! O----the wonder!!! If we are those who by His sovereign gratuitous mercy have truly turned from our rebellion against this God of blazing holiness, trusting in Jesus alone for our righteousness --- righteousness which is ours by imputation through our union with Him--- then when this God views our filthy ink black sin through the lense of the perfect righteousness of Christ alone, strangely, as far as our sin and our eternal destiny before God as judge is concerned------- well, our sin appears to Him as white as fresh fallen snow (Is. 1:18).