Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Peter 2:24 KJV)
We don’t come to God in our own worthiness! Oh, if that would just sink into your heart, that it’s only in the worthiness of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the cross of Calvary that gives you the right to come with boldness. You can come with boldness because it isn’t any worthiness of your own!
Our sins are forgiven us because Jesus Christ, the Son of God, bore them in His own body on the tree. The bloodstained cross is the moral warrant on which we base this right to come boldly and our assurance that our sins are forgiven.
It’s wonderfully inspiring to me to remember constantly that the cross is a finished transaction. The promise is based on blood already shed and, on a transaction, already completed, not on anything we can do or say or any works of ours or any worth in ourselves. We are unworthy.
But the vilest sinner bowing at the foot of the cross of Calvary and claiming the cleansing power of the blood can know the peace of total remission of all and every sin, and then approach God the heavenly Father boldly through the blood of Christ, through the worthiness of the Lord Jesus Christ. There isn’t any other way, dearly beloved, of approaching the heavenly Father except through His worthiness. [1]
God loved you at your worst and is still in the process of guiding you towards Himself. You find your best self when you move closer to Jesus. - Jason Coache
[1] Anchor Jesus Takes You as You Are
