Deeper Life #120

To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

—1 Thessalonians 3:13

SIN IS BLINDNESS. ONE OF the greatest crises of our day is that we are contented with easy satisfaction in our spiritual lives. We are content with moral fastidiousness. If we are to get at the heart of the religion of the Cross, we will have to forget such religious trivialities. We must be “unblamable in holiness before God.”

May God stop the preachers with moral measuring rods. Down with them! We need broken-hearted preachers with an awful conviction of sin, preachers who cry, “My God! My God! Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned!”

Christ did not come to put our relationships right with one another; He came to put our relationships right with Him. To accomplish this, He must eradicate the old disposition of sin and fill the cleansed heart with His blazing, incandescent glory.

Prayer Thought: Establish true holiness in my heart and life so that I will be ready for the coming of Christ.

SUGGESTED READING: Psalm 51:1–12