May is half Over – Views From Morning and Evening May 15 and I80

May 15, 2010

May is half Over – Views From Morning and Evening May 15 and I80

We have just returned from a 10 day vacation to the mainland. Oh, the happiness grandchildren bring.

May 15

Morning Verse

"All that believe are justified." Acts 13:39

The believer in Christ receives a present justification. Faith does not produce this fruit by-and-by, but now. So far as justification is the result of faith, it is given to the soul in the moment when it closes with Christ, and accepts Him as its all in all. Are they who stand before the throne of God justified now?—so are we, as truly and as clearly justified as they who walk in white and sing melodious praises to celestial harps. The thief upon the cross was justified the moment that he turned the eye of faith to Jesus; and Paul, the aged, after years of service, was not more justified than was the thief with no service at all. We are today accepted in the Beloved, today absolved from sin, today acquitted at the bar of God. Oh! soul-transporting thought! There are some clusters of Eshcol's vine which we shall not be able to gather till we enter heaven; but this is a bough which runneth over the wall. This is not as the corn of the land, which we can never eat till we cross the Jordan; but this is part of the manna in the wilderness, a portion of our daily nutriment with which God supplies us in our journeying to and fro. We are now—even now pardoned; even now are our sins put away; even now we stand in the sight of God accepted, as though we had never been guilty. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." There is not a sin in the Book of God, even now, against one of His people. Who dareth to lay anything to their charge? There is neither speck, nor spot, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing remaining upon any one believer in the matter of justification in the sight of the Judge of all the earth. Let present privilege awaken us to present duty, and now, while life lasts, let us spend and be spent for our sweet Lord Jesus.

Charles Hadden Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "May 15".

This brings a few things to mind.

We each have been given a job to do for Christ, the thief's was simply to believe and Paul's was to arduously and at time painfully serve for many years then die for Christ. We will all do what we were intended to do with the skills that God provides either by personality or experience.
Believers stand in the sight of God, the minute they accept Christ as their all in all, as though they have never been guilty of anything. Think of that, the guilt is unnecessary, the sin who's memory haunts us it is put away forever.
Because of the above it is a privilege to be spent for Christ.

Check out a few views on our 2000 mile trip across CA, NV, UT and WY

Oakland to Carson City: