BLESSEDNESS IS TRUSTING IN THE LORD

 
God's Word says, "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is" (Jeremiah 17:7). I recently saw a sign outside a religious organization that read - "Jesus Believes In You." When I read this sign, the following verse came to mind - "Behold, He putteth no trust in His saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight" (Job 15:15). Man by nature in an unregenerate state always thinks more highly of himself that he is. He considers himself to be of great value to the Lord. He will even consider himself as someone in whom God believes and trusts, but this is not so. In ourselves we are worthless sinners who deserve eternal damnation. Why, then, would God give His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is infinitely valuable in Himself, to die for such worthless sinners?

It is true that God sent His only-begotten, beloved Son to die for the sins of His elect. The value of the sacrifice, the precious blood of Christ, was not due to any inherent value within us who are sinners, but in the value of God Himself and His glory in the salvation of worthless sinners in and by the Lord Jesus Christ. In the salvation of sinners, value and worth is not and cannot be measured by God believing in us but only in our believing in God and believing God as He reveals HIS value and worth in Christ. The Bible never says, "blessed is the man in whom God trusts." It does say in many verses, "Blessed are all they that put their TRUST IN HIM."

 

-preacher Bill Parker

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