OUR GLORIOUS STANDING!

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.  (Romans 8:1 NKJV)

The characteristics of this glorious standing are they are present now.

If we are in Christ, we need not wait in doubts and fears for the verdict of Judgment Day. Its decisions cannot make our standing clearer, or our acceptance surer, but we shall learn there the meaning of God's dealings with mankind, and triumph in the successful vindication of His ways. We can never be freer from the condemnation of God's righteous law than we are at this present.

It is certain: "There is no condemnation." You must catch this accent of conviction, and be able to speak with no faltering voice of your assured acceptance with God, if you would enter upon the rich inheritance of this chapter, to which these opening words stand as the door of passage. The shadow of a doubt cannot live in the light of that certainty of which the Apostle speaks.

It is invariable. There are some who live on a sliding scale between condemnation and acceptance. If health is buoyant and the heart is full of song, they are sure of their acceptance with God; but if the sun is darkened and the clouds return; when the heart is dull and sad, they imagine that they are under the ban of God's displeasure. They forget that our standing in Christ Jesus is one thing; our appreciation and enjoyment of it quite another. Your own heart may condemn you; memory, the recorder of the soul, may summon from the past evidence against you; the great Accuser of souls may lay against you grievous and well-founded charges; your tides of feeling may ebb far down the beach; your faith may become weak and lose its power and grip; your sense of unworthiness may become increasingly oppressive.  None of these things can touch your acceptance with God if you are complying with His one all inclusive condition, "no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus."   In Galatians 3:27 (NKJV) the Apostle Paul tells us how one gets into Christ.  For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. This mystic union with the Son of God is only possible from faith working by love and obedience.  And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment. Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. (1 John 3:23-24 NKJV).

PRAYER

We commit ourselves to Your care and keeping this day; let Your grace be mighty in us, and sufficient for us, and let it work in us both to will and to do of Your own good pleasure, and grant us strength for all the duties of the day.  I pray it in Christ’s name, AMEN.

God's Daily Promise

Promise #99:
I have raised you up with Christ to sit in heavenly places.

Ephesians 2:5-6 (WEB)
5 even when we were dead through our trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),