For anyone to enjoy settled peace, he must cease from self and harken to God\u2019s Word and rest without a single question on its pure, precious and everlasting record. God\u2019s Word never changes. I change; my frame, my feelings, my experience, my circumstances change continually, but God\u2019s Word is the same yesterday and today and forever.<\/p>\n
It is a grand and essential point for the soul to apprehend that Christ is the only definition of the believer\u2019s place before God. This gives immense power, liberty and blessing. \u201cLove has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world\u201d (1 John 4:17 NKJV). <\/i>This is something perfectly wonderful!<\/p>\n
Let us ponder it; let us think of a poor wretched, guilty slave of sin, a bondslave of Satan, a votary of the world, exposed to an eternal hell. Such an one is taken up by sovereign grace and delivered completely from the grasp of Satan. He is freed from the dominion of sin, the power of this present evil. He is pardoned, washed, justified, brought nigh to God, accepted in Christ and perfectly and forever identified with him so that the Holy Ghost can say, \u201cAs Christ is, so is he in this world!\u201d<\/p>\n
All this seems too good to be true. Most assuredly, it is too good for us to get, but blessed be the God of all grace and blessed be the Christ of God, it is not too good for him to give. God gives like himself. He will be God in spite of our unworthiness and Satan\u2019s opposition. He will act in a way worthy of himself and worthy of the Son of his love.<\/p>\n
Excerpt from the writings of J.B. Stoney used in David Wilkerson\u2019s personal devotions.<\/i><\/p>\n