The Cornerstone Baptist Church
Cornerstone Baptist Church
of Massillon, Ohio
The Cornerstone Baptist Church |
Independent
Fundamental Cornerstone Baptist Church of Massillon, Ohio |
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Daily Devotion |
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February 03, 2007
Daily Reading: Leviticus 7:1-8:36
Quick Study: Leviticus 1:1-3:17
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh,
to live after the flesh.
As God's creatures, we are all debtors to him: to obey him
with all our body, and soul, and strength. Having broken his
commandments, as we all have, we are debtors to his justice, and
we owe to him a vast amount which we are not able to pay. But of
the Christian it can be said that he does not owe God's
justice anything, for Christ has paid the debt his people
owed; for this reason the believer owes the more to love. I
am a debtor to God's grace and forgiving mercy; but I am no
debtor to his justice, for he will never accuse me of a debt
already paid. Christ said, "It is finished!" and by that he
meant, that whatever his people owed was wiped away for ever
from the book of remembrance. Christ, to the uttermost, has
satisfied divine justice; the account is settled; the
handwriting is nailed to the cross; the receipt is given, and we
are debtors to God's justice no longer. But then, because we are
not debtors to our Lord in that sense, we become ten times more
debtors to God than we should have been otherwise. Christian,
pause and ponder for a moment. What a debtor thou art to divine
sovereignty! How much thou owest to his disinterested love,
for he gave his own Son that he might die for thee. Consider how
much you owe to his forgiving grace, that after ten thousand
affronts he loves you as infinitely as ever. Consider what you
owe to his power; how he has raised you from your death in
sin; how he has preserved your spiritual life; how he has kept
you from falling; and how, though a thousand enemies have beset
your path, you have been able to hold on your way. Consider what
you owe to his immutability. Though you have changed a
thousand times, he has not changed once. Thou art as deep in
debt as thou canst be to every attribute of God. To God thou
owest thyself, and all thou hast--yield thyself as a living
sacrifice, it is but thy reasonable service.
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