..."never think that to live always on Christ for justification is a low and beggarly thing, and as it were a staying at the foundation; for let me tell you, depart from a sense of the meritorious means of your justification with God, and you will quickly grow light, and frothy, and vain. Besides, you will always be subject to errors and delusions; for this is not to hold the head from or through which nourishment is administered, Col. 2:19. Further, no man that buildeth forsakes the good foundation; that is the ground of his encouragement to work, for upon that is laid the stress of all; and without it nothing that is framed can be supported, but must inevitably fall to the ground. Again; why not live upon Christ alway? and especially as he standeth the mediator between God and the soul, defending thee with the merit of his blood, and covering thee with his infinite righteousness from the wrath of God and curse of the law. Can there be any greater comfort ministered to thee than to know thy person stands just before God? Just and justified from all things that would otherwise swallow thee up? Is peace with God and assurance of heaven of so little respect with thee that thou slightest the very foundation thereof, even faith in the blood and righteousness of Christ?..."
Sometimes I am in awe of my own lack of conformity to Christ. Just the other day the Holy Spirit spoke into my dull heart and showed me that apart from Christ I would not be able to stand before God blameless, but instead vile and guilty. I seem to grow at times as if I don't think often enough on these core truths of the Christian faith, but when the Comforter brings remembrance I am filled again with joy. I read just yesterday in Psalm 16 that in the presence of God there is fullness of joy, to which I say Amen and Hallelujah!
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