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God Never Has to Go Looking for Your Righteousness, because He is sitting right beside Him!

“One day as I was passing into the field, this sentence fell upon my soul: ‘Thy righteousness is in heaven.’ And with the eyes of my soul I saw Jesus at the Father’s right hand. ‘There,’ I said, ‘is my righteousness!’ So that wherever I was or whatever I was doing, God could not say to me, ‘Where is your righteousness?’ For it is always right before him.

“I saw that it is not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor yet my bad frame that made my righteousness worse, for my righteousness is Christ. Now my chains fell off indeed. My temptations fled away, and I lived sweetly at peace with God.

“Now I could look from myself to him and could reckon that all my character was like the coins a rich man carries in his pocket when all his gold is safe in a trunk at home. Oh I saw that my gold was indeed in a trunk at home, in Christ my Lord. Now Christ was all: my righteousness, sanctification, redemption.”

– John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Come. Try, Taste

Sinner, the greater sinner thou art, the greater need of mercy thou hast, and the more will Christ be glorified thereby.

Come then, come and try; come taste and see how good the Lord is to an undeserving sinner.

--John Bunyan, Come, and Welcome, to Jesus Christ, in The Works of John Bunyan (2 vols; Philadelphia: James Locken, 1832), 2:16
Hat Tip: Dane Ortlund

A Goal for My Humble Blog

"If thou findest me short in things, impute that to my love of brevity.
If thou findest me besides the truth in aught [any respect], impute that to my infirmity.
But if thou findest anything here that serves to your furtherance and joy of the faith, impute that to the mercy of God bestowed on thee and me.
Yours to serve you with what little I have."

—John Bunyan, Note to Reader, “Saved by Grace,” in The Works of John Bunyan, 1:336.

Works for me too!

Hat Tip: A Nice Little Introduction to This Blog – Justin Taylor:

Wings to Fly

From John Bunyan …

Run, John, run, the law commands
But gives us neither feet nor hands,
Far better news the gospel brings:
It bids us fly and gives us wings.

(HT: Rick Ianniello, Already Not Yet)"