“The ultimate problem that all human beings face is that God’s omnipotent wrath is against them.”
-John Piper.
We can not fathom our offensiveness. We can not fathom our debt. There is no way of knowing exactly how much we deserve the wrath of God. But still, try. Try to know.
Let the weight of your sin become real in this moment.
Pause for a moment. Your sin against God is real and it does not just get swept under the rug.
Now read this slowly.
1 John 2:1–2
My little children, I am writing this to you so that you may not sin; but if any one does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and he is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
“The ultimate good news is that there is a way to have the wrath of God averted—and that God himself has made the way.”
-John Piper.
“Jesus Christ the righteous” has made “Samuel Miles the sinner” into “Samuel Miles the righteous.”
And He does the same for you.
He is your advocate. You are not your advocate. He is.
Rest in this reality today.
One last Piper quote,
“He stands before his Father in heaven, and every time we sin, he doesn’t make a new propitiation. He doesn’t die again and again. Instead he opens his portfolio and lays the exhibits of Good Friday on the bench before the Judge. Photographs of the crown of thorns, the lashing, the mocking soldiers, the agonies of the cross, and the final cry of victory: It is finished.”
“It Is Finished” says our Advocate. Live like it.
ltlo
