The LORD's mercy endureth for ever!
"Thou
wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea."
-MICAH
7:19 [KJV]
When
God takes all our iniquities with His own hand, and casts them with
His own arm into the depths of the sea, they will never come out of
those depths to witness against the family of God in the great and
terrible day. Your sins now may seem to be all alive in your breast,
and every one of them to bring accusation upon accusation against
you. This sin is crying out for vengeance, and that for punishment.
This slip, this fall, this backsliding, this foolish word, this wrong
action, are all testifying against you in the court of conscience. Do
what you may, be where you may, live how you may, watch and pray how
you may, keep silent and separate from the world or even from your
own family how you may, sin still moves, lives, acts, works, and
often brings you into guilt and bondage.
But
if God has had mercy upon us He has cast all our sins with His own
hands into the depths of the sea, and those sins have no more eyes to
look at us with angry indignation, have no more tongues to speak
against us in voices of accusation, have no more life in them to rise
up and testify that they have been committed by us, that God’s law
has been broken by them, and that therefore we are under its
condemnation and curse. And there is no truth in God’s word more
certain than the complete forgiveness of sins, and the presentation
of the Church of Christ at the great day faultless before the
presence of His glory with exceeding joy.
–Gospel report by preacher Augustus Toplady (1740–1778 A.D.)
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