Month: April 2022

They had brought their myrrh and aloes and spices to keep corruption from entering; forgetful that it is the Incorruptible whose body they are thus needlessly though lovingly embalming, and ignorant of the meaning of the ancient promise, “Thou wilt not suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption.

in faith we look to Christ. It is His righteousness, His life, His death which save us. We look to Him, and in that look, whether feeble or frail, we rest ourselves in His work on our behalf.

This righteousness is “reckoned” or “imputed” to all who believe; so that they are treated by God as if it were actually theirs. They are entitled to claim all that which such righteousness can merit from God, as the Judge of righteous claims. It does not become ours gradually, or in fragments or drops; but is transferred to us all at once.